Trawler "Peter I" caught 93.5 thousand tons of fish and broke its own world record

Russian freezer fishing cannery trawler "Peter I" caught 93.5 thousand tons of fish in 2024, updating the world record for fish catch by one vessel. This was reported by the All-Russian Association of Fishery Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Exporters (VARPE) on December 22.

"Thus, Russian fishermen for the third time updated their own world record for catch by one vessel of this type during a calendar year," RIA Novosti quoted the association's statement as saying.

The previous record was 90 thousand tons of fish and was also set by the crew of the "Peter I". The vessel finished the current fishing season on December 20, having been fishing for 307 days on two trips: from January 8 to June 1 and from July 2 to December 20.

The two crews consist of 130 people, notes "Gazeta.Ru". In winter and spring, the trawler catches pollock, herring, Ivashi and mackerel in the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk, and in summer and fall - Ivashi and mackerel in the Pacific Ocean.

Before that, on December 3, the monitoring system of Rosrybolovstvo (CSMS) recorded that fishermen of the Northern Basin caught 416.5 thousand tons of fish. In particular, the catch included 210.6 thousand tons of cod, 58 thousand tons of haddock and 51.7 thousand tons of capelin. The national catch of aquatic bioresources amounted to about 4.6 million tons.

Earlier, on October 30, the press service of the Primorsky Territorial Administration of Rosrybolovstvo reported that the volume of salmon catch by enterprises of Primorsky Krai increased 2.6 times compared to the indicators of the previous even-numbered year. It is specified that fishermen caught 1891.3 tons of salmon fish.