Wild salmon fishing in Kamchatka (Photo: courtesy kam24.ru)

Not a good salmon season in the Far East and fishery closes in an area of ​​Kamchatka

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 01:00 (GMT + 9)

By 17 August 2020, the volume of Pacific salmon production exceeded 220 thousand tons, but only 51% of the record level of 2018.

In the Kamchatka Territory, 173 thousand tons were mined (caught), which is 46% of the level of 2018 (-201 thousand tons or 54% of the level of 2018). Users of the Sakhalin Oblast produced more than 22 thousand tons (-14 thousand tons or 61% by 2018). In the Magadan Region, the total production volume reached 4.2 thousand tons (76% of the level of 2018, -1.3 thousand tons).

The regional commission for the regulation of the catch of anadromous species of fish (salmon) has decided to complete the fishery  in the Gulf of Corfa and the rivers flowing into it.

As explained to the news agency Kam 24 in the North-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Fishery, the decision to close the salmon fishing line was made on the basis of aerial survey data, according to which the spawning grounds of the rivers flowing into the Korf Bay are insufficiently filled with fish.

A ban on industrial and traditional (indigenous peoples' communities) fishing in the bay and rivers will be introduced from 00:00 on August 19.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the volume of production exceeds the indicators of 2018 by 8%: 18.3 thousand tons were produced, or 1.4 thousand tons more.

In the Primorsky Territory, the total production volume reached 896 tons, or (97%, -28 tons from 2018), in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - 1.7 thousand tons (83% from the level of 2018, -0.4 thousand tons).

In the West Kamchatka subzone, a total of 74,820 tons were mined (+17,153 tons per week). The main object of the fishery is pink salmon, 62,217 tons of it were harvested, which is 16,965 tons less than in 2018; 9,810 tons of chum salmon, which is 1.8 times more than in 2018; 2,050 tons of sockeye salmon, which is 2.1 times more than in 2018; 743 tons of coho salmon (in 2018 - 58 tons).

In the Kamchatka-Kuril subarea, a total of 65 466 tons (+11 440 tons per week) were harvested, including 43 660 tons of pink salmon, 17 000 tons of sockeye salmon, 4670 tons of chum salmon and 166 tons of coho salmon. The total catch in the subarea is 2.3 times less than in 2018 (151 607 tons).

In the Karaginskaya subarea, 21,011 tons were produced (+311 tons per week); the main catch of pink salmon - 16 56 tons, catch rates are 6 times lower than those in 2018 (105 314 tons); chum salmon were harvested 3,070 tons (in 2018 - 9,583 tons), sockeye - 1,259 tons (in 2018 - 2,646 tons), coho salmon - 96 tons (in 2018 - 19 tons), chinook salmon - 20 tons (in 2018 - 72 tons).

In the Petropavlovsko-Komandorskaya subarea, 8,519 tonnes were harvested, the main part of the catches being sockeye salmon (6,114 tonnes). The catch of sockeye salmon is 3,595 tonnes lower than those in 2018 (9,709 tonnes). The total catch in the subarea is 1.8 times lower than the same indicators in 2018 (15,384 tons).

In the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, as of 08.16.2020 in the West Bering Sea zone, within the framework of industrial fishing, the catch is 1,649 tons: chum salmon - 1,265 tons, sockeye salmon - 226 tons and pink salmon - 158 tons. In 2018, the catch was 2,050 tons.

Processing of raw Pacific salmon is carried out at onshore processing plants and on fish processing vessels.

On the East coast of Kamchatka during the week, 2 vessels (+7 tons) were accepted, during the fishing season, 2,275 tons of raw were received. On the western coast of Kamchatka, 36 vessels (+4986 tons) are accepted for acceptance; in total, 33,426 tons of crude were received during the fishing season. For transportation, 57,692 tons of fish products from Pacific salmon were shipped. The main destination is the port of Vladivostok and the ports of the countries of Southeast Asia.

The average load of refrigerators in Primorsky Krai is 62.4% (47,660 tons). 27 vessels are approaching, the total volume of fish products is 61 392 tons, of which 11 vessels are with salmon products, the volume of fish products is 18 538 tons.

Source: Press Service of the Federal Agency for Fishery

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