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Regional fishing details 1. Far East waters: Pollock accounts for 70% · Pollock: The cumulative catch reached 405,500 tons, accounting for 70% of the total production in the sea area. In the week of February 16 alone, 86 large and medium-sized fishing vessels participated in the operation. · Pacific herring: The output was 125,600 tons, an increase of 13,100 tons over the same period in 2024, completing 111.6% of the annual plan. · Cod: The catch was 19,200 tons. The Sea of Okhotsk is currently in the "A season" (January-April), during which the pollock catch usually accounts for 80% of the annual total. Although the ice coverage in the western and northern parts of the sea area has expanded to 40.4% (close to the historical low), the Russian Far East rescue team has ensured the safety of fishing boat operations by strengthening ice monitoring. 2. Other sea areas · Northern sea area: total production of 32,900 tons, mainly cod (23,700 tons) and haddock (4,900 tons). · Western sea area: production of 12,400 tons, a year-on-year surge of 60.4%, mainly from sprat (7,600 tons) and Baltic herring (4,700 tons). · Azov-Black Sea area: mainly anchovies, with a production of 7,400 tons. · Volga-Caspian Sea Basin: sprat production of 11,300 tons, a year-on-year increase of 28%. 3. Fishing volume in international waters doubled The Russian fleet's fishing volume outside the exclusive economic zone reached 26,600 tons, a surge of 127.4% year-on-year. Among them: · 13,200 tons were caught in foreign economic zones (an increase of 2,800 tons year-on-year); · 13,400 tons were caught in the high seas and internationally agreed waters (an increase of 12,600 tons year-on-year). Logistics and warehousing dynamics · The current storage utilization rate of cold storage in the Primorsky Krai is 31%, and 19 transport ships carrying 34,300 tons of fish are waiting to dock and unload. · The Russian fishery department predicts that as the fishing season in the Sea of Okhotsk progresses, the catch of pollock will continue to rise in the next two months

Average prices for white crystal sugar continue to fall on the São Paulo spot market. Even though this is the off-season, demand for ready-to-deliver products remains sluggish, keeping prices per bag of crystal sugar weak. Researchers at Cepea point out that this scenario of devaluation in Brazil is occurring even in light of the reaction in external sugar prices. On the New York Stock Exchange (ICE Futures), the March/25 demerara sugar ...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The government is preparing strategic steps to ensure the availability and stability of staple food prices ahead of the month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr 2025. Minister of Agriculture, Andi Amran Sulaeman said, one of the main steps that will be taken is to hold market operations. This is to minimize or even eliminate the potential for spikes in food prices in various regions. "We hope that the price is stable, if necessary lower than the previous year, and we will also hold large-scale market operations," said Amran, in a press conference at the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) Head Office, Ragunan, South Jakarta, Monday (2/17/2025). The government has prepared a market operation mechanism, including a plan for the volume of commodities distributed, determining the prices of various commodities, and determining the location. The Ministry of Agriculture and various related stakeholders continue to strengthen it. Including today, there is a ...