RUSSIAN FISHERY COMPANY GOES ON WITH FLEET RENOVATION

Russian Fishery Company goes on with fleet renovation. Russian Fishery Company pulled the f/v ‘Pavel Panin’ out of operation. The vessel was decommissioned within the RFC’s fleet renovation programme.

Retired capacities are replaced by new high-performance super trawlers, the first of which, f/v ‘Vladimir Limanov’, started harvesting in 2021. This year, the company’s fleet will include two super trawlers out of ten vessels, which will be built for the company in Russia at the Admiralty Shipyards.

“Fishing fleet renovation is a strategic priority of the RFC and the basis for long-term sustainability of the industry as a whole,” noted Olga Naumova, General Director of the Russian Fishery Company. – Super trawlers that will make up the RFC’s new fleet will enable the company to ensure leadership in product quality, significantly increase production of MSC-certified deep-processing products and enter the new markets with them”.

In total, the RFC will receive 11 new super trawlers. These are the largest and most technologically advanced vessels for the Russian fishing fleet, either of which will ensure waste-free processing of up to 100% catches on board and annual output of about 15 thousand tons of high value-added products, such as fillets, mince and a new product – surimi. Thanks to the commissioning of the super trawler ‘Vladimir Limanov’, the Company has already started producing surimi, which has been highly apprised by Russian and foreign partners.

The new vessels provide high-quality working and leisure conditions for crews, the highest level of environmental friendliness and energy efficiency currently available. In particular, CO2 emissions from the super trawler per ton of fish harvested will be reduced by half as compared to the indicators of vessels used now.

The Russian Fishery Company is one of the leading Pollock harvesting companies in Russia and in the world. The company is one of the top three Russian manufacturers of wild white fish. The main harvested species are pollock and Pacific herring. The Company is engaged in fishing in the Far East fishery basin. The Company’s heavy-tonnage fishing vessels are well suited to work in all fishing areas and under any climatic conditions. The Company’s processor trawlers are equipped with modern fishing and processing equipment from leading international suppliers which enables the trawlers to harvest and process various aquatic biological resources at sea. The Company’s strategic goals involve increasing the output of high value-added products due to fleet modernisation, construction of new, state-of-the-art super trawlers and shore-based processing factories.

The RFC is constructing a new fleet of super trawlers, state-of-the art, technologically advanced fishing vessels. Each trawler is designed for an annual catch of more than 60 thousand tons of fish, which is 2.5 times higher than the productivity of vessels that are today the basis of the fishing fleet in the Russian Far East. The first of 11 super trawlers to be constructed for the RFC was handed over to the Company in 2020.

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