BarentsNews.com

International cooperation with the aim to defeat poaching and illegal export of fish products was the main issue during the last assembly of The State Fishery Committee in Moscow.

Today, 1st of October 2002, a regular meeting of the Board of State Fishery Committee of Russian Federation took place in Moscow. The main question on the agenda was discussions of the perspectives of the development of fishery complex of Kaliningrad region.

On September 21, the Norwegian trawler “?yasher” got under the fire of Russian warships in the Barents Sea, reported the vessel’s captain Lars Endersen.

Norwegian Environmental Minister B?rge Brende expressed concern over Russian plans for using large tankers to transport oil from Murmansk along the Norwegian coast. He shared his worries during a recent visit to Murmansk, where he had talks with the Murmansk region’s governor Yuri Yevdokimov.

Rune Rafaelson, head of the Barents Euro-Arctic Region Secretariat is going to visit Murmansk tomorrow, September 26th, to meet with the Murmansk region’s governor Yuri Yevdokimov. Participation of the region in the Northern Sea Corridor project will be discussed.

A 45-tonne cargo of fresh cod was delivered last week to NortVerde fish processor, based in Murmansk. It was the first catch landed by the trawler “Tsivilsk” in the framework of a new project conceived by Russia’s State Fisheries Committee.

Norwegian coast guard authorities require cooperation from the Russian side to clamp down on illegally high cod and saithe by-catches surged recently by Russian herring-fishing vessels.

At the next meeting of the joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission to be held in November 2002, the Russian side, among other issues, plans to propose a system of the so-called deferred settlements for cases of fishery violations.

Mikhail Zub, General Director of the Murmansk Fish Processing Plant (Murmansky Rybokombinat) is to come up with a new idea at the next meeting of the joint Russian – Norwegian Fisheries Commission.

In late August this year, a delegation of the State Fisheries Committee headed by Chairman Yevgeny Nazdratenko, visited Kaliningrad. It was Mr Nazdratenko’s first visit to the Baltic port.