Russia Confirms Plans to Increase Volume of Krill Catch This Year
Russia plans to significantly increase the volume of krill catch this year as part of its attempts to become one of the world’s largest krill catchers.
Russia (at that period the USSR) initially conducted complex expeditionary work to study and develop Antarctic krill resources in the 1960s, and began the actual fishing in 1971. Other countries joined later. The fishery was primarily conducted in the Antarctic Atlantic. The record krill catch (528.700 tons) was achieved in 1982, with the share of the...
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