The Fishig Industry

The fishing industry includes taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products.

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The coastline of the Russian Federation is the fourth longest in the world after the coastlines of Canada, Greenland, and Indonesia. The Russian fishing industry has an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 7.6 million km² including access to twelve seas in three oceans, together with the landlocked Caspian Sea and more than two million rivers.

According to the FAO, in 2005 the Russian fishing industry harvested 3,190,946 tons of fish from wild fisheries and another 114,752 tons from aquaculture. This made Russia the ninth leading producer of fish, with 2.3 percent of the world total.

EEZ

Russia's marine fisheries are based on twelve seas from three oceans which surround Russia, the landlocked Caspian Sea, and the seas beyond Russia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

The three oceans are:

▪ the Atlantic: with the Sea of Azov, Black Sea, Baltic, Barents Sea and White Sea

▪ the Arctic Ocean: with the Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea and Chuckchi Sea

▪ the Pacific: with the Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan).

Fishing industry in Russia.

In March, 2011 the Analyst Market Company issued new research of the Russian fish market. The general tendency of the Russian fish market represents annual growth of its indicators. So, experts notice that crisis practically wasn't reflected in any way in a market condition. Consumption of fish grows in the country, the next years it will reach a consumption level during the Soviet period - more than 23 kg per capita. Increase taking and consumption expansion has led to production growth. Following the results of 2010, in Russia it has been produced 3 400 thousand tons of fish and the fish processed and tinned products that on 2,8 % more than in 2009

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