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Russian scientists to explore fish resources in southeast Pacific
KALININGRAD, July 15 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian scientific-research
ship Atlantida leaves on Wednesday the port city of Kaliningrad for the
south-eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.
It will carry scientists and specialists from the Atlantic Research
Institute of Fishery and Oceanography (AtlantNIRO), the head of the
expedition, Viktor Anikeyev, told Tass. They will make research work to
assess fish resources, and in particular horse mackerel, in that part of
the Pacific Ocean, he said.
Research will be made 500 to 600 miles off Chile, in the so-called
"horse mackerel belt" which was a traditional area of Russian fishery up
till the year 1991. Rich fish resources were discovered there at the end
of the 1970s. Up to 90 vessels operated in that region, producing yearly
up to one million tons of horse mackerel.
In the post-Soviet period Russia practically stopped using that part
of the Pacific because of a big distance and other factors, "and the
Russian fleet appeared there episodically," Anikeyev said.
Now, when the situation changes as concerns international legal rules
and agreements on that fishery region, "time has come for new modern
research work, for determining resources of horse mackerel," he believes.
The scientific group on board the Atlantida consists of 11 people. The
vessel was updated several years ago and is in a good technical condition.
"We possess state-of-the-art scientific equipment installed on the
Atlantida," Anikeyev stressed. The expedition will continue for about
half-a-year, while work in the area will take about three months.
Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov visited the ship
during a working trip to Kaliningrad on July 7. He stressed that Russian
fishermen return to the World Ocean, and this will be the first scientific
expedition over the past seven years.
However, "the Atlantida will not be the only vessel engaged in such
activity, and several similar Russian ships will begin operating in
different parts of the seven seas shortly," Zubkov stressed.
-0-zhe/
ship Atlantida leaves on Wednesday the port city of Kaliningrad for the
south-eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.
It will carry scientists and specialists from the Atlantic Research
Institute of Fishery and Oceanography (AtlantNIRO), the head of the
expedition, Viktor Anikeyev, told Tass. They will make research work to
assess fish resources, and in particular horse mackerel, in that part of
the Pacific Ocean, he said.
Research will be made 500 to 600 miles off Chile, in the so-called
"horse mackerel belt" which was a traditional area of Russian fishery up
till the year 1991. Rich fish resources were discovered there at the end
of the 1970s. Up to 90 vessels operated in that region, producing yearly
up to one million tons of horse mackerel.
In the post-Soviet period Russia practically stopped using that part
of the Pacific because of a big distance and other factors, "and the
Russian fleet appeared there episodically," Anikeyev said.
Now, when the situation changes as concerns international legal rules
and agreements on that fishery region, "time has come for new modern
research work, for determining resources of horse mackerel," he believes.
The scientific group on board the Atlantida consists of 11 people. The
vessel was updated several years ago and is in a good technical condition.
"We possess state-of-the-art scientific equipment installed on the
Atlantida," Anikeyev stressed. The expedition will continue for about
half-a-year, while work in the area will take about three months.
Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov visited the ship
during a working trip to Kaliningrad on July 7. He stressed that Russian
fishermen return to the World Ocean, and this will be the first scientific
expedition over the past seven years.
However, "the Atlantida will not be the only vessel engaged in such
activity, and several similar Russian ships will begin operating in
different parts of the seven seas shortly," Zubkov stressed.
-0-zhe/
