Northwest Fisheries Consortium Consortium home Ships Products English About the consortium Contacts About consortium The non-profit partnership "North-West Fishery Consortium" (Consortium) was registered in 2002 as a result of the merger of a number of fishing companies in the North-West region into a single professional organization. The first companies that are part of the Consortium started their activities in Murmansk and Petrozavodsk in 1993 by fishing for cod and haddock and supplying it to consumers chilled. Then the Consortium grew by acquiring Russian and foreign-built vessels in order to increase production volumes and expand the range of products. Currently, the Consortium has one of the largest fleets in the Northern fisheries basin, consisting of fishing vessels and crab-processors. The Consortium includes specialized subdivisions for supplying the fleet, repairing ships, transshipment and storage of cargo, training and retraining of the ship's personnel. Fish and crab are processed both on board ships and in our onshore factories. Our offices: - St. Petersburg

Northwest Fisheries Consortium Consortium home Ships Products English General information Bottom fish species Kamchatka crab Kamchatka crab Kamchatka crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) is one of the largest Far Eastern crabs. For the Barents Sea, the Kamchatka crab, or the red king crab (Red King Crab), as the Americans call it, is an introduced species, that is, it was specially brought from the Far East by scientists in the 1960s and artificially introduced into the Barents Sea, after which the invader adapted to new conditions and began to multiply intensively. The Kamchatka crab fishery in the Barents Sea is carried out by two countries, Russia and Norway. Norway started commercial fishing in 2002, Russia in 2004. Crab fishing is carried out using special traps in ecologically clean areas of the Barents Sea in the autumn-winter period.

Northwest Fisheries Consortium Consortium home Ships Products English General information Bottom fish species Kamchatka crab Bottom fish species Fishing vessels of the Consortium catch cod (Atlantic cod) and haddock, blue-horned halibut in the Barents Sea. As a by-catch, fish species such as pollock, sea bass, flounder, and catfish are also caught. All of these fish species are benthic. Fishing is carried out all year round using trawls. Fishing vessels of the Consortium produce frozen products from bottom fish species at on-board factories. Basically, these are products in the form of gutted headless carcasses, sorted by weight. Frozen fillets are also produced. By-products can be liver, heads, tails, fishmeal, and other foods. The fish caught by the Consortium's vessels live in natural, ecologically favorable conditions; it is not cultured. Meat of cod and haddock, halibut is tasty, aromatic, pleasant consistency.