Russia Sees Continuing Increase in Crab Production, Which is up 10,000 tons This Year
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Eugene Gerden - December 14, 2016
Russia plans to continue to increase the volume of domestic crab production in the coming years, according to an official spokesman of Ilya Shestakov, head of the Russian Federal Agency of Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo).
This year the volume of crab production in the Russian Far East amounted to 47,000 tons, which is significantly higher than previous years, which did not exceed 37,000 tons.
Valery Koblikov, head of the Laboratory of commercial shellfish of the Russian Pacific Fisheries Research Center (TINRO Center), said that the increase in production was mainly due to the increase of crab catch in the Western Kamchatka. According to predictions of Koblikov, the volume of crab production in Russia will grow by 2,000-3,000 tons annually during the next several years. That will be mainly due to the planned increase of catch of opilio crabs, that will mostly take place in the North Okhotsk subarea.
Particular attention will be paid to the increase of catch of triangle tanner crabs and Japonicus...
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