Russia: The VARPE Council approved the position on updated requirements for onshore plants

The Vladivostok Association of Fish Processing Enterprises (VARPE) plans to increase production coefficients for various fish products, including fillet and minced meat, fishmeal, fish oil, and headless haddock products. The association also intends to include other products made from waste in its reporting. These coefficients are approved by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture and have been endorsed by the leading association of Russian fishermen. Additionally, VARPE will now require factories to report on fish oil processing.

VARPE will offer for reporting purposes on the volume of production at onshore plants: — increase the production coefficient of fillet and minced meat from 2.5 to 3; — increase the production coefficient of fishmeal and fish oil from 1 to 1.5; — increase the production coefficient of headless products for haddock from 0.5 to 1; - supplement the appendix to the draft Rules for calculation with coefficients for such types of products as “humerus bones with meat cuts”, “vertebral bones with meat cuts”, “bellies”, “heads”, “heads”, “tail part”, in the amount of 1 ,5 as other products produced from waste (similar to fishmeal and fish oil). At the stage of developing the current version of the Rules, the VARPE Council also approved the position of the leading association of fishermen in Russia on production rates at factories. A number of proposals were taken into account by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture. In particular, coefficients have been adopted for whole herring, cod liver ...