FIFA panel to evaluate Sochi readiness for WSCF.

SOCHI, August 18 (Itar-Tass) - The Inspection Commission of the
International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) on Wednesday
arrives in Sochi, which is one of candidates to play host to World Soccer
Cup Finals (WSCF) of 2018 or 2022.
An official at the management office of the Zhemchuzhina (pearl)-Sochi
soccer club has told Itar-Tass, "The principal aim of the visit is to
inspect sports, hotel and transport infrastructure facilities of the
health resort, and to evaluate its preparedness for the holding of 2018
WSCF".
The soccer club official specified, "During the visit, FIFA inspectors
will check the readiness of sports facilities, tour camps for the
accommodation of sportsmen, and building Olympic facilities". The
commission members tentatively plan to be present at a training session of
Sochi soccer players at the central stadium named after Slava Metreveli
and watch the training of the pupils, born in 1996 and 1998, at the
juvenile sports school.
The FIFA delegation will be accompanied by Vitaly Mutko, RF Minister
for Sports, Tourism, and Youth Policy, Sergei Fursenko, president of the
Russian Soccer Union, Alexander Tkachyov, Governor of the Krasnodar
Territory, and Anatoly Pakhomov, the Mayor of Sochi.
The FIFA Inspection Commission began the evaluation of the readiness
of Russian cities for WSCF by visiting St Petersburg. Then they visited
Moscow and, after visiting here, will travel to Kazan.
Applications for the holding of 2018 WSCF have been filed by Britain,
the United States, Russia, Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands
(jointly), and Spain and Portugal (jointly). Australia and the US aspire
to hold 2022 WSCF along with Qatar, South Korea, and Japan. In May this
year, Russia also presented a Candidature File to host WSCF of 2018 or
2022.
A final decision on a venue for WSCF of 2018 and 2022 is to be
announced by FIFA at its head office in Zurich on December 2, 2010.

.Salmon fish farming facility built on Sakhalin Island.

VLADIVOSTOK, August 18 (Itar-Tass) - A fish farming facility, intended
for the laying of 15 million fertilized salmon roe-corns, has been built
on the western coast of the Sakhalin Island.
The facility has become the island's 37th fish farming enterprise.
Together they are planning to lay for incubation 800 million roe-corns of
pink salmon, chum salmon, and other salmon fishes for the first time this
year.
According to an announcement made by the press service of the Sakhalin
Region administration, the island begins to pay an increased attention to
the western coast where salmon enters rivers for spawning on a small scale.
The regional administration has set a task of developing the network
of fish farms which, resultant of the raising of the fry of the red fish
and its release into the sea, will boost salmon fishes' return to the
rivers of the Sakhalin's western coast for spawning. The red fish spawns
precisely in a river where it itself came from.

.Bodies of four fishermen found on Kamchatka.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, August 18 (Itar-Tass) - The bodies of four
fishermen from the small craft that sank in the Sea of Okhotsk have been
found off the Kamchatka Peninsula's shores. The fate of the other three,
who were reported missing, remains unknown. The search for them is being
continued, an official in the press service of the EMERCOM department for
the Kamchatka Territory has told Itar-Tass.
The EMERCOM official pointed out, "The bodies were found on the shore,
not far from the Ustyevoye Settlement and in the area of the River
Vorovskaya. Two bodies have been identified while the identities of the
other two are being ascertained".
According to the Investigation department for the Kamchatka Territory,
a small craft, belonging to the Kolkhoz Oktyabrya (Collective Farm
October) joint-stock company, capsized and sank in the Sea of Okhotsk at
a distance of one kilometre from the shore, in the area of the River
Semozhnya on the night from August 16 to17 during a storm. There were
eight people on board. Only one managed to save himself.
The search for the missing is being conducted in the area of the
incident along the coastline. An operational group of the Investigation
department has been sent to the scene to find out the circumstances of the
accident. A round-the-clock hotline is operating for relatives to get all
information on the course of the search-and-rescue operation.
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