July 30, 2015

Salmon fail to show up in Russian waters

TASS - Fishery companies on Russia’s Far-Eastern island of Sakhalin are puzzled by the absence of salmon fishes on approaches to the island’s shores.

The regional Council of Fishermen has sent a letter to the Acting Governor asking him to organize aerial photography of the eastern coast in order to establish the real situation with the availability of salmon this season, Sergey Senko, the chairman of the Association of Fishing Collective Farms and Enterprises of Sakhalin told TASS.

"A highly complicated situation has taken shape at present," he said. "We had a scientific forecast for big fishing and our enterprise made borrowings and brought in people and what we actually see is the absence of fish."

"July is coming to an end but the Pacific salmon, which the scientists said would get here in the amount of up to 200,000 tons doesn’t show up in any form at present," Senko said. "What should we do in this situation? Pay our productions teams and wait or dissolve them?"

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