Russian Salmon Production Likely to Decline by 30% This Year
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Eugene Gerden - September 28, 2017
Salmon production in Russia will decline by 30 percent this year, compared to 2016, according to latest predictions of the Russian Agency of Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo).
The forecasted drop is primarily due to the decline of salmon populations near Sakhalin, despite the fact that volumes of catch on Kamchatka, the center of Russian salmon production, remained roughly on the same level as in 2016.
During the previous year, the annual volume of salmon catch in Russia was 400,000 tonnes; however these figures will be significantly lower this year. ...
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