Fishermen ask to simplify the rules for accounting for fish packed in the sea

The Association of Fishing Fleet Owners (ASRF, unites the structures of the Russian Fishery Company, Russian Crab and Norebo Group of Companies) proposes to include in the rules of fishing in the Far East the possibility of a 5% deviation when reconciling the weight of packaged fish products by the FSB border service with the indicators transmitted by the captain during mining and production. This is stated in a letter from the association dated January 11, 2023 to the co-chairman of the working group on the regulatory guillotine in the field of fisheries under the government of the Russian Federation, German Zverev. Vedomosti got acquainted with this document.

The current version of the rules already allows for such a discrepancy in relation to both fish and fish products. The ASRF believes that the norm applies to both processed and packaged goods. But in 2022, the FSB began to fine market participants if deviations were found with the data on packaged products stated in the documents, says a top manager of a fishing company.