Sergei Blagov

By July 13, Russia’s total wild salmon catch had reached 18,080 metric tons, down 37% compared with the same point in both 2025 and 2024

Strong catches are expected in the West Bering Sea zone and the East Sakhalin subzone, TINRO said

Russia has allocated 16,000 metric tons of mackerel and sardine quotas in Japan’s EEZ for 2026, as the sardine season gets off to a slow start.

New laws are turning the mandatory presence of border guard officials at the unloading and reloading of vessels into an optional requirement

Russian authorities have also set recommended catch levels for tuna in the waters off Sakhalin Island for the first time

Russian authorities have made it mandatory to register all seafood sales contracts over 10t at the St. Petersburg and Eastern commodity exchanges since March 1

By the end of July, Russia’s total wild catch reached 2.78 million metric tons, according to the federal fishery agency Rosrybolovstvo, down from 2.95m a year earlier

Russian seafood exports to China are up a remarkable 52% y-o-y in value and 14% in volume for the first six months of the year

Climate change has become a key factor constraining domestic aquaculture production, according to a report by the All-Russian Fishery Association

Under the new law, the federal government will set procedures for defining fishing area boundaries using Russia’s national coordinate system