November 6, 2020 — Russia plans to attract the US and Japan to find a solution of the problem of poor salmon catch this year, according to recent statements, made by the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo) Ilya Shestakov.
According to authorities of the Russian Primorsky Krai, this year the volume of salmon caught in the country’s territorial waters is significantly lower than initially expected figures for 2020. A spokesman of the Primorye authorities said if last year 297,000 tonnes of salmon were caught in the Far East, this year the volume of catch is by 1.5 times lower than a year ago. The main reason for this is the rise in water temperature and the massive death of salmon from toxins, released by red algae.