Los rusos están de vuelta

Siguiendo con el tema de la ORP aquí les dejo una noticia que reafirma la idea de mi anterior artículo.

Russia's state owned fleet will lead return to distant water fisheries off Peru and Chile

SEAFOOD.COM NEWS Copyright 2008 Interfax News Agency January 30, 2008 MOSCOW, The establishment of the Rosrybflot fishery fleet corporation will help return Russian fishing boats to open waters around the world, Russian State Fisheries Committee chief Andrei Krainy said. 'We expect to set up OAO Rosrybflot with the state holding 100% of it and send it to open waters next year,' Krainy said at a session of the Russian Federation Council chairman's council dealing with agribusiness and fisheries in Moscow on Tuesday. The state-owned fleet should enter this zone first, Krainy said. 'It should make headway, and private fishermen will follow,' he said. 'Transferring harvesting from Russia's exclusive economic zone to the open part of the world's oceans and the economic zones of other countries is a strategic goal,' Krainy said. Russian fishing boats left open waters in 1991 and have not been harvesting in the African and Latin American areas or near other countries and continents since then, Krainy said. At the same time, world fishing leaders have recently proposed dividing the open waters into zones and distributing fishing quotas in them, he said. The Russian Fisheries Committee plans to re-launch expeditions for exploring the amounts of resources of fish and other marine species in various parts of the world, and first such expedition will be sent to the southeastern part of the Pacific, where fish resources outside Peru's and Chile's economic zones are estimated at 7 million tonnes, Krainy said. He suggested that Russia could harvest 1.5 million tonnes of those species.