This was announced by the head of Rosrybolovstvo Ilya Shestakov, speaking at the IV Congress of workers of a fishery complex of Russia. "The fishing industry remains largely export-oriented sector. In 2017, the volume of exports exceeded 2 million tonnes, which is almost equal to 50% of the amount of produced products," he said.

According to I. Shestakov, the export structure is traditionally dominated by products with low degree of processing. Meanwhile, in 2026-2017 he observed a significant shift towards exports of products with high added value, in particular Alaska Pollock fillets. "The rising cost of exports for 5 years was 30%, and the average annual growth rate of 7%", – he said.

In the import part after a significant decline caused by currency fluctuations and trade restrictions, 2017 demonstrated growth in deliveries of 16%, said I. Shestakov. In the structure of imports, according to him, is also dominated by frozen products.

As noted by the head of Federal Agency for fishery, the amount of extraction of water biological resources in 2017, according to preliminary data, amounted to 4.9 million tons, a record over the past 25 years. The volume of aquaculture production, according to operative data, in 2017 reached 220 thousand tons, which is by 19% more than in 2013.

I. Shestakov reminded that in 2017, the fish production was 4.2 million, including about 75% accounted for frozen fish. By the end of 2017 the contribution of the fisheries sector in the GDP structure amounted to RUB 229 billion, total tax revenue, according to estimates Rosrybolovstva, – 25 billion rubles.

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