Sea of Okhotsk

Russia's pollock 'A' fishing season in the Sea of Okhotsk is wrapping up. Pollock fishing in the West Kamchatka and Kamchatka-Kurile subareas was completed on April 1, with catching in the North Okhotsk subzone scheduled to close on April 10. As of April 3, the country's overall pollock catch in the Sea of ...

The Russian military carried out an air force exercise above its Khabarovsk region this week, testing the combat readiness of troops stationed in the far eastern territory that borders China but also stretches along the beaches of the Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan. As part of the drill, Moscow sent two ...

In fact, through most of the winter, the Arctic was on track to have its worst period ever. The only reason this winter ultimately didn't break yet another record for low sea ice was that as cooler air in recent weeks allowed ice to reform, the increase near Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk was significant enough to ...

COM by Eugene Gerden - March 9, 2018 Russia Looks at Developing Extreme Deep Water Fishery in Sea of Okhotsk Russia plans to significantly increase extreme deep sea fishing in the coming years, according to regular statements of leading domestic fish producers and various officials from ...

"We are talking about an intercontinental missile that can be launched from the Sea of Okhotsk. It will not go straight to the stratosphere, where it will become an easy target, but instead will fly some three to four meters above sea level and no radar will be able to detect it. And the missile will go some 13,000 ...

Pesticides accumulate in bodies with high fat content. This conclusion has been reported by scientists from the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), who have been studying seabirds and marine mammals of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea for several years. In a scientific article published in ...

Pesticides are accumulated in bodies with high fat content. This conclusion was made by the scientists from the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) that have been studying seabirds and marine mammals of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea for several years. The cycle of studies is supported by the ...

... heads of shipping companies to take serious precautions. It also expressed readiness to react swiftly in case of an emergency situation. The Kamchatka is a vast volcanic peninsula in the Russian Far East with a coastline in the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk. Dachnye hot springs in Kamchatka.

ABASHIRI, Hokkaido--The arrival of the natural spectacle of drift ice winding through the Sea of Okhotsk off the Abashiri coast here was made official on Jan. 28. The Abashiri Local Meteorological Office's announcement came seven days later than in an average year and three days earlier than last year.

COM [Seafood News] by Eugene Gerden - January 3, 2018 Russia Forecasts Significant Pollock Harvest Increase in Sea of Okhotsk This Year Russia forecasts a significant increase of pollock catch in the Sea of Okhotsk this year that will contribute to the overall increase of pollock production in the country ...

MOSCOW – Sakhalin-1 consortium member Rosneft has successfully completed drilling a well from the Orlan platform at Chaivo field in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. Said to be the longest in the world, the length of the well with horizontal completion is 15,000 m (49,212 ft) with directional drilling index of 8.0 ...

Russian gas giant Gazprom Neft says it has made a new discovery containing 255 million tonne of oil equivalent (ca.1.8 bn boe) in place on the Ayashsky license block, in the Okhotsk Sea. The Ayashsky block in the Okhotsk Sea forms part of the Sakhalin-3 project. The block is in the northeastern part of ...

MOSCOW -- Gazpromneft-Sakhalin, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, has completed drilling of a prospecting and appraisal well at its Ayashsky license block, located on the continental shelf of the Okhotsk Sea. As a result, a new hydrocarbon field has been discovered, with initial in-place reserves estimated at ...

On Monday, the Chinese People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) and the Russian Navy began the second stage of their Joint Sea 2017 military exercises. The exercises are taking place in the Sea of Japan and, for the first time, the Okhotsk Sea. These drills underline ongoing naval and military-to-military ...

As of April 11, the country's overall pollock harvest was at 909,900 metric tons, down 0.6 percent from last year's level, with 84.2 percent of the TAC harvested. The pollock TAC in the Sea of Okhotsk for 2018 was set at 1.07 million metric tons, while pollock quotas for the West Bering Sea, East Kamchatka, ...