Login

 

Forgot password?
submarines shipbuilding Black Sea Fleet exercise Pacific Fleet Russian Navy Northern Fleet strategy cooperation Ukraine visits Russia piracy missiles trials Sevastopol history Sevmash presence contracts drills Baltic Fleet industry incident anti-piracy shipyards training Gulf of Aden frigate Somalia India developments reforms opinion Borei procurements policy Russia - India aircraft carrier Crimea arms exports USA St. Petersburg tests France financing Bulava Yury Dolgoruky Serdiukov US Navy cruise Mediterranean Zvezdochka NATO innovations United Shipbuilding Corporation Indian Navy Medvedev Arctic agreements commission Admiralteyskie Verfi Admiral Gorshkov Mistral Vladivostok accident hijacking corvettes overhaul Admiral Kuznetsov anniversary Russia - France Rosoboronexport Vysotsky event ceremony Yantar Severomorsk defense order negotiations conflict aircraft China deployment naval aviation Putin investigations Black Sea Varyag coast guard Novorossiysk Vikramaditya landing craft Far East crime marines Severnaya Verf meeting scandals memorials Syria traditions South Korea Japan escort statistics Neustrashimy Yasen tenders Admiral Chabanenko convoys Marshal Shaposhnikov Ukrainian Navy Chirkov problems Severodvinsk reinforcement tension technology firings tragedy Baltic Sea frontier service Almaz search and rescue upgrade hostages Caspian Flotilla provocation Moskva court Dmitry Donskoy Turkey keel laying rumors helicopters death Kilo class shipwreck Admiral Panteleyev Atalanta World War II Petr Veliky Kaliningrad Admiral Vinogradov Norway Rubin delivery launching patrols
Search
Our friends russian navy weapons world sailing ships
 
Tell a friend Print version

Russia to protect its trawlers in Spitsbergen waters

Russia to protect its trawlers in Spitsbergen waters 01.04.2008
From now on, Russia will actively protect its trawlers in the waters around Spitsbergen, Head of the Russian State Committee of Fisheries, Andrey Krainy said on Thursday, 27.

The top fishery official confirms that two fishery inspection vessels will operate permanently in the area. –On Monday we will get funding for the hiring of two vessels which will head towards Spitsbergen for the protection of our ships, Mr. Krainy said at a press conference in Moscow today.

The powerful Russian fishery boss, who has promised to boost Russian fish catch in few years, underlines that Russian trawlers from now on will operate in the Spitsbergen waters all year round, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax.

- I believe the number of detentions of Russian vessels, like with the “Elektron”, “Izumrod” and other, will drop significantly, Mr. Krainy added.

The more active Russian role in the waters around Spitsbergen could spur tensions with the Norwegian Coast Guard, which today takes on fishery inspections in the area.

Russia disputes the Norwegian establishment of a fishery protection zone in the area around Spitsbergen from 1977, and has protested loudly to the Norwegian Coast Guard’s arrests of Russian trawlers violating fishery restrictions in the area.

Source: www.barentsobserver.com

Back to the list