Russia's Primorrybvod delegation ends visit to DPRK

PYONGYANG, May 5 (Itar-Tass) -- In accordance with the decision of a
session of the Russian-Korean Commission on cooperation in the field of
fishery, a delegation of Russian specialists of the FGU Primorrybvod
stayed in North Korea from April 28 to May 5 to familiarize themselves
with working conditions of Korean fishing enterprises, assess the
effectiveness of salmon reproduction, as well as exchange experience of
work in this sphere.
The delegation headed by Primorrybvod deputy head Ilya Vikhlyayev
visited the fish-breeding enterprise Namgan in Kangwon-do Province. At
present, reconstruction works are underway at the enterprise. According to
employees of the plant, before the beginning of the reconstruction, its
capacity was equal to 10 million pieces of Siberian salmon fry.
Russian specialists, as representative of the Russian Federal Fishery
Agency Mikhail Pautov, who was a member of the Russian delegation, told
ITAR-TASS in Pyongyang, acquainted their Korean colleagues with
peculiarities of salmon reproduction at fish-breeding enterprises of the
FGU Primorrybvod and provided them with information materials on fishery
and ichthyology.
The Russian delegation also visited the Pyongyang sheat-fish
enterprise which is supplied with water from coolers of the Pyongyang HPP.
As the plant director said, its annual volume of fish products amounts to
900,000 tonnes.
The trip of the delegation of the FGU Primorrybvod took place right
after a visit of leader of the Russian Federal Fishery Agency Andrei
Krainy to North Korea who signed here a memorandum on mutual understanding
in the field of preventing illegal, undeclared and unregulated catching of
live sea resources.
Our department, as Krainy said in a talk with ITAR-TASS, set itself
the task of signing over two years such agreements with countries of the
Asia-Pacific region to "reliably close ports for poaching products."
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