ussia Expects to Cut Fish Imports 20% in 2017 With Opening of Large Scale Fish Processing Complex
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Eugene Gerden - January 4, 2017
Russia will replace up to 20% of their imports of fish and fish products by the end of 2017, through the building of a new fish processing complex, expected to be one of the largest in the country.
The complex will be built in the Crimean city of Kerch, and will specialize in processing fish from the Azov and Black Sea. The volume of catch from those areas has increased significantly in recent years.
The new complex will have the capacity to process up to 75,000 metric tons of fish and seafood per year and will be built by the Lazurny Okean Group of Companies, (which is a local fish producer and processor) with the support of the Crimean authorities and the Russian federal government.
The initial stage involves modernization of the existing industrial refrigerator of the complex, which has a fish storage capacity of 10,000 metric tons in the Kerch Fishing Port, as well as establishing a fish reception point with the capacity of 40,000 metric tons per year...
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