Fishing industry in Russia

Fishing industry in Russia

Russia has a coastline of 37,653 km (23,396 mi).[1]
General characteristics (2005 unless otherwise stated)
EEZ area	7,566,673 km2 (2,921,509 sq mi)[2]
Shelf area	5 million square kilometres (1.9×10^6 sq mi)[3]
Lake area	79,400 km2 (30,700 sq mi)[1]
Land area	16,995,800 km2 (6,562,100 sq mi)[1]
Employment	Primary: 100,000+ persons[3] Secondary: 700,000+ persons[3]
Landing sites	Most volume: Most value:
Consumption	17.3 kg (38 lb) fish per capita (2003)[2]
Fisheries GDP	US$ 3.02 billion (2006)[3]
Export value	US$ 2.12 billion (2006)[3]
Import value	US$ 1.44 billion (2006)[3]
Harvest (2005 unless otherwise stated)
Wild inland	72,000 tonnes (79,000 tons)
Wild total	3,190,946 tonnes (3,517,416 tons)[4]
Aquaculture inland	c. 110,000 tonnes (120,000 tons)[5]
Aquaculture marine	c. 5,000 tonnes (5,500 tons)
Aquaculture total	114,752 tonnes (126,492 tons)[4]
Fish total	3,305,698 tonnes (3,643,908 tons)[4]

The coastline of the Russian Federation is the fourth longest in the world after the coastlines of Canada, Greenland, and Indonesia. The Russian fishing industry has an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 7.6 million km² including access to twelve seas in three oceans, together with the landlocked Caspian Sea and more than two million rivers.^[3]

According to the FAO, in 2005 the Russian fishing industry harvested 3,190,946 tonnes of fish from wild fisheries and another 114,752 tonnes from aquaculture. This made Russia the ninth leading producer of fish, with 2.3 percent of the world total.^[4]