In the Sakhalin region, during even years almost two times less salmon (mostly pink salmon, calico, salmon trout, river salmon, sparling) comes for spawning from the Pacific ocean than in non-even years, the headquarters said.
The most favourable fishing situation is near the Iturup island in the southern Kuriles. As of August 7(time lag with Moscow is +8 hours), local fishermen caught over 8,600 tonnes of salmon. On the eastern and south-eastern coasts of Sakhalin in the Aniva, Terpenia and Mordvinova bays, the catch was over 5,000 tonnes. In the north-western regions, the fishing season is coming to an end: fishermen have exhausted their quota of over 500 tonnes of pink salmon and calico.
In Sakhalin and the Kuriles, the salmon fishing season is picking up speed. Tests of caught raw fish show that the peak of pink salmon and calico spawning season is still ahead.
Overall, the salmon fishing situation in Sakhalin and the Kuriles is seen by specialists as satisfactory, the regional headquarters said.
In all, fishermen have got industrial quotas for catching 61,379 tonnes of salmon during the 2004 fishing season.
