The Ministry of Agriculture was asked to further substantiate benefits for fish processors

The apparatus of the Russian government asked to additionally justify the preferential fee for the use of aquatic biological resources for high-margin fish products. As follows from the letter, which was sent to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Federal Agency for Fishery on May 15, these departments should provide information on how such measures will affect the domestic market. Vedomosti got acquainted with a copy of the document. Representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Federal Agency for Fishery confirmed receipt of the letter. The government office did not respond to a request.

The draft list of products, in the production of which fishermen will be able to pay only 15% of the fee for catching water resources, was prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture in April 2023. It included fillet, minced meat and flour from herring and pollock, as well as fillet and minced cod, haddock, pink salmon, chum salmon, coho salmon, chinook salmon, sockeye salmon, sim. The rates themselves were raised in November 2022, and came into force on January 1 this year. The fee, for example, for pollock in the Far East has increased from 2,000 to 4,300 rubles. per 1 ton, cod in the Northern Basin – from 5000 to 7900 rubles. for 1 ton and so on.