24.07.2009
Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula has some of the richest salmon runs in the Pacific, sustaining animals and communities. Now the fish need help. read more  |
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04.05.2009
Campaign started by WWF in 2004 and supported by Kamchatka fishermen, applies to V.V. Putin from the Ministry of Natural Resources, active position of several deputies - helped decrease the scales of drift-net fishing. read more |
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27.04.2009
Pollock fishery - 2009 in the Sea of Okhotsk, one of the largest in the Far East, is over. Kamchatka Ministry for Fisheries said about it. read more |
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03.04.2009
At the open hearings in Kamchatka Regional Duma deputies voted unanimously for the complete ban on drift-net fishing for Salmon in the Russian waters.
A film with the interview given by one of the drifter vessel crew member was demonstrated during the hearings. This film was telling on the fact that the total harvest of Salmon, that includes also the harvests which are not registered in the fishing operations registry journal on board, exceeded the reported catch made by this vessels in as much as 10 times. This means that 90% of the catch made by vessel, from which that crew member told his story, was not registered / accounted for at all. It included Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon and lower quality Sockeye Salmon that were not good enough to the Japanese customers and thus discarded overboard. read more |
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23.03.2009
The authorities of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Yelizovo officially supported the campaign. Several famous Kamchatka commercial companies have already prepared to switch off the billboards. read more |
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17.03.2009
Minister of Kamchatka Fisheries Vladimir Galitsin drew fishermen's attention on the necessity of increasing percent of catches of coastal quotas. read more |
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03.03.2009
WWF shares concern of Russian State Committee on Fisheries on the future of the Sea of Okhotsk biological resources to be affected during oil and gas development. However WWF disagrees that damage can be compensated. read more |
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26.02.2009
Annually more than 50 000 tons of salmon were taken illegally by big companies and individual poachers. The scientists say that this problem has a social and economic basis. read more |
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18.02.2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed outlawing fishing with drift nets, otherwise known as “walls of death”, following a lengthy campaign by fishermen and politicians in Kamchatka as well as local organizations including WWF-Russia. read more |
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30.01.2009
Villagers in the Kamchatka peninsula are reliant on poaching salmon as almost their sole source of income, finds a new report launched today by WWF-Russia and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. read more |
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26.01.2009
Interfax reported that Russian subsurface resource use agency Rosnedra will auction rights to two hydrocarbon properties in Kamchatka territory on March 25th. read more |
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13.01.2009
According to the Kamchatka Ministry for Fisheries, almost all fishing fleet of Kamchatka fishing companies is operating at the Sea of Okhotsk catching Alaska pollack. read more |
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25.12.2008
Kamchatka Department of the All-Russian Environmental Organization is 50 years of age. read more |
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24.12.2008
Scientists of KamchatNIRO have conducted a seminar devoted to Alaska pollock fishery of the Sea of Okhotsk-2009 for inspectors of the Kamchatka State Marine Inspection. read more |
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22.12.2008
Tomorrow, on December, 23, the first meeting of Public Council of the Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo) will be held. read more |
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15.12.2008
According to the Kamchatka Ministry for Fisheries, the analysis of catch of commercial coastal quotas of water biological resources has shown that catch of some objects of fishery in some subzones is less than 50% by December. read more |
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11.12.2008
The next Salmon council will be held on December 16-17 in Vladivostok, Russia. read more |
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10.12.2008
In view of coming into force of the new Rules of organizing of veterinarian surveillance of import/export, processing, storage, transportation, realization of hydrobionts, fish and seafood and products made of them, Kamchatka's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor begins to inspect fishing companies of Kamchatka region. read more |
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27.11.2008
WWF Russia organized tasting of meals made from fish that was caught and delivered to Moscow by the Kamchatka companies that are the candidates to be certified following International MSC Ecological Certification. read more |
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18.11.2008
A delegation of Kamchatka region will defend interests of Kamchatka fishermen at the meeting of the Far-Eastern Scientific Fishery Council (FESFC) which will be held on November 20-21 in Vladivostok. read more |
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14.11.2008
Traffic police of the Milkov District in the Kamchatka Region apprehended a truck carring a large number of illegally captured gyrfalcons the night of November 11. read more |
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10.11.2008
The members of Commission on Determining of Fishing Sites' Borders have been approved in Kamchatka region. The Commission has been formed from the representatives of the regional Ministry for Fisheries, territorial bodies of federal bodies of executive power, institutions of local government, public unions, legal persons, environmental and scientific organizations. read more |
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07.11.2008
RIA Novosti cited the head of the Federal Subsoil Agency as saying that, the Russian state run energy companies Gazprom and Rosneft have applied for a western Kamchatka shelf license. read more |
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27.10.2008
Governor of Kamchatka region Alexei Kuzmitsky appealed to Public Prosecutor of Kamchatka Anatoly Knyazev with the request to check the activity of those directors of fishing companies who after the end of a fishery season doesn't provide transportation of season workers from the regions of fishery. read more |
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22.10.2008
One year of prison as a punishment for illegal drifting fishery has got a captain of fishing seiner "Kadet-701", said in the Office of Public Prosecutor of Kamchatka. read more |
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21.10.2008
Kamchatka Territory Governor Alexei Kuzmitsky has announced that the thermal power plants of the Kamchatka Peninsula are to switch over to the use of gas by the beginning of the 2010-2011 heating season read more |
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13.10.2008
During fishery of 2008 Kamchatka fishing companies have harvested almost 90% of salmon quotas, reported the Ministry for Fisheries of Kamchatka region. read more |
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02.10.2008
Kamchatka fishermen submitted more 160 applications for the tender for allotting of coastal quotas for 10 years. The Minister of Kamchatka Fisheries Vladimir Galitsin said about it. read more |
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02.10.2008
The Committee for Fisheries of the Legislative Council of Kamchatka region at the next meeting approved unanimously the appeal of the regional Union of Fishermen and Employers to the Chairman of Russian Government Vladimir Putin. read more |
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30.09.2008
According to the regional Ministry for Fisheries, commercial salmon fishing in the Kamchatka Bay and the Kamchatka River is closed. read more |
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