Kamchatka region salmon shippers may try Northern Sea Route as rail lines are plugged and costly
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Itar-Tass] - October 15, 2014 -
MOSCOW, Russia’s Far East and Kamchatka territory are practically able to substitute the imported farmed salmon, which Russia used to deliver from abroad before banning a wide range of products in response to Western sanctions, the territory’s governor Vladimir Ylyukhin told the Federation Council upper house of Russian parliament on Wednesday.
He stressed that Kamchatka territory was one of the country’s major fish producers as "the region provides almost a third of fish yields in the Far East and one fifth of all yields in Russia in total". Proving that, the local administration calculated that 873,600 tonnes of fish was captured in the area last year.
Ylyukhin said he believes that the Northern Sea Route /Sevmorput/, the shipping lane from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean running along the Russian Arctic coast to the Bering Strait, can be the solution of the problem, for this bypass route will be much cheaper than costly railroad transportation throughout the country. Besides, this alternative shipping way may sufficiently raise Russia’s export potential.
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