Highseas fisheries: large or medium-sized fishing vessels?

In the forecast for the next walleye pollock fishing season, sectoral science notes, “The efficiency of the fishery will account to 100–110 tons per vessel fishing day when using heavy-tonnage vessels, and 50–60 tons per vessel fishing day when using medium-tonnage vessels”.

In addition to different fishing and processing capacities of vessels of different types, this conclusion is justified by weather conditions and ice conditions in the fishing areas, “Background conditions – storms and ice conditions – play an important role for successful fishing. Based on science data, the average number of stormy days is predicted for the "A" fishing season, and, therefore, a decrease in unproductive losses of the fleet. At the same time, the increase in the ice coverage of the sea will lead to a decrease in the number of fishing operations off eastern Sakhalin and northward of 57 degrees north latitude.”

Operating features of large and medium-sized fishing vessels in the fishery, the economic indicators of their work, the advantages of some and the limitations of others are analysed and presented by FSA in the analytical material "On the feasibility of building heavy-tonnage fishing vessels within the second stage of investment quota program".