"We are the fishing industry and fishermen and shipbuilders have supported and will support. Now communicating with our manufacturers and have agreed that our programme of support to fishermen and shipbuilders extend. Now we have it ends in 2020, agreed to extend it until 2030", - he said at a ceremony launching the first modernized fishing vessel.

In a press-service of the regional government TASS said that we are talking about the state program of the Kaliningrad region "Development of the fisheries industry". It was approved in February 2014.

The program is aimed at modernization of the fishing fleet and the creation of a coastal infrastructure for intake and working out portions for increasing the fish production and development processing. "On these purposes from the regional budget it was allocated 100 million rubles, in 2017 - more than 80 million", - noted in press service.