Tatarstan and Rosrybolovstvo sign cooperation agreement

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has today at the Cabinet of ministers met with the Federal Fishery Agency head Andrey Krainiy.

At the meeting, Tatarstan and the federal agency signed a cooperation agreement within implementing the federal target programme called “Increasing the efficiency of using and developing the fishing industry’s resource potential in 2009-2014”.

The result of the signing will be constructing in Tatarstan a sterlet reproduction unit that includes a stationary and a floating fish farms.

On signing the agreement, Andrey Kariniy told journalists the new farm would be used to produce the valuable sturgeon breed that lives in fresh water and does not go far from where it has been let out, 70-100 kilometres.

A fish processing facility will be constructed in the Alabuga special economic zone, to process fish delivered from the Far East and Murmansk. A chain of the Ocean specialised shops is being set up in Tatarstan, outlets having been opened in Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny and Agryz.

The Rosrybolovstvo chief said the Tatarstan authorities supported the large-scale project on developing the fishing industry. “Unlike in many other Russian regions, if a decision is made in Tatarstan, one can be completely sure it will be implemented,” he stated.

The Tatarstan first vice premier Ravil Muratov told journalists the funds within the federal target programme would be allocated later in the year. A floating fish farm will fist be constructed, its price being about 300 million roubles. In 2011, the construction of a stationary fish farm of a capacity of 2 million starlet juveniles will be begun. Its cost, including the infrastructure, is about 650 million roubles, the funds to be obtained from the Russian and Tatarstan’s budgets.