The 2006-2015 Outlook for the Fish and Seafood Market in Russia

During the period from 2006 to 2009 the yield of fish and seafood was increasing in Russia annually. The situation in 2008 was the only exception when the yield decreased by 2.5%, i.e. 85 thousand tons, compared to 2007. In 2009, the yield of fish and seafood amounted to 3.7 million tons, which is 12% more than in 2008. The considerable growth was provided by the record fish catch of salmonids, i.e. 550 thousand tons,which is 271 thousand tons more than in 2008.

The biggest share of the fish yield belongs to the gadidae family, in particular to Alaska pollock. In 2009, was caught 1271 thousand tons of Alaska pollock which is 35.4% of the whole fish catch. 15.3% of the yield fell on the salmonids. The catch of herring amounted to 391 thousand tons or 10.9% of the total volume of yield.

From 2006 to 2008 the sales of fish and seafood go up by 7.5% in Russia. In 2009, the market volume declined by 7% in comparison with 2008 but in 2010 the sales shrank by 11% further and totaled 3.2 million tons. From 2011 the sales volume of fish and seafood will be increasing and it will have amounted to 3.7 million tons by 2015. The wholesale and retail trade turnover is directly connected with the customer demand, which in its turn, is increasing against the backdrop of the growth of yield and switch from the consumption of expensive meat to less expensive and more healthful fish. The growth of demand is explained by the popularization of healthy eating. In the nearest future the sales of chilled fish will increase considerably in the regions where the restaurants of Japanese food are developing dynamically.

Each resident of Russia consumes about 22 kilograms of fish and seafood on average. However an average European eats more than 30 kilograms per year and a Japanese more than 60 kilograms.

The 2006-2015 Outlook for the Fish and Seafood Market in Russia contains the essential data, necessary to comprehend the current market opportunities and conditions and to assess the future prospects, covering such points as:

• The overall assessment of the economic environment in Russia
• The yield of fish and seafood
• Volume of sales of fish and seafood
• Balance of demand for and supply of fish and seafood
• Number of population and consumption of fish and seafood per capita
• Economic output, total export and import, the volume of merchandise in storage
• Cost price, import and export cost, ex-factory price, average wholesale price
• Ratings of the industry in terms of economic output and sales revenue
• Financial and economic profiles of leading enterprises

In the report the information is given for the following types of production:

• Fresh and chilled fish
• Frozen fish
• Salted, marinated and stockfish
• Fish fillet and other fish flesh including mince
• Seafood
• Preserves and canned fish and seafood
• Fish and seafood delicacies including caviar

In the report all fish and seafood is subdivided into the following types:

• Crustacean (crabs, crayfish, prawns, shrimps, krill)
• Mollusks (squid and cuttlefish, scallop, mussels and oysters, whelk and other mollusks)
• Seaweed (kelp (laminaria), red algae, ahnfeltia and other seaweed)
• Echinoderms (sea urchin and other echinoderms)
• Whale
• Marine mammals
• Fish (sharks, grass carp, Caspian roach, sea roach, wolf-fish, European plaice, common carp, sprat, common bream, bakeling, salmonids, capelin, sea breams, rockfish, sturgeon, halibut, gadidae (including Atlantic cod, haddock, Alaska pollock and other gadidae), European carp, saury, Atlantic herring (sprat), sardine, herring, whitefish, rays, Atlantic mackerel, wels catfish, Atlantic horse mackerel, sander, greenling, silver carp, tuna, Black Sea sprat, conger, anchovy, northern pike and other fish).

The report presents data on largest producers of fish and seafood: Murmansk Trawl Fleet-1, Okeanrybflot, Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet-3, the Preobrazhenskaya Base of Trawling Fleet, Nakhodka Active Marine Fishery Base, Viciunai-rus, Dalmoreproduct, ROK-1, Lenin RK (fishing co-op), Robinzon, Akros, Maritime Star, TURNIF, Sakhalin Leasing Flot, Ekarma Sakhalin, Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, Rybflot-FOR Rybopromyshlennaya Kompania, Vostokrybprom, Yuzhnomorksya Baza Rybflota, Kuril rybak, Vestrybflot, Intraros, Murmansk Trawl Fleet-3, TINRO-Center, Polluks, Rybokombinat Ostrovnoy, Gidrostroy, Pilenga, KAMNIRO and others.

The Russian market survey contains the detailed information on the regions of the country. BusinesStat offers the survey of fish and seafood markets of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg alongside with the report.

The survey is based on the official statistics, obtained from:

• Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation
• Ministry of the Economic Development of the Russian Federation
• Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
• Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation
• Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation

Apart from the official statistics, the survey also contains the results of the research done by BusinesStat:

• Survey of consumers of fish and seafood
• Audit of retail trade of fish and seafood
• Survey of experts of fish and seafood market