The Salekhard fish processing plant sends fish to cosmonauts

The oldest fish processing enterprise of Yamal – the Salekhard fish processing plant prepares to start exporting its products to markets of East and Central Asia since 2019.

At the first stage it is planned to organize deliveries to China. In a case of success it will be unique experience for the Arctic region – for the present time not a single enterprise of fishing industry delivers products to far foreign countries. The regional department of agro-industrial complex, trade and foodstuff conducts consulting support of this work; interaction of the enterprise with Rosselkhoznadzor (the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance) for solving of issues connected with export of foodstuff is organized, as the press-service of the governor of Yamal informs.
It is expected that demand of Asian countries for environmentally friendly fish products of producer from Yamal will be high. Today the fish processing plant outputs more than 60 kinds of canned food and 90 kinds of fish products — smoked, dried, salted, culinary and also semi-finished products. In addition to the existing assortment the Salekhard plant plans to offer principally new products of deep processing to consumers — both domestic and foreign. The issue on startup of an additional production on the basis of the enterprise at the expense of private investments is being considered for this purpose.
At that, the Yamal market still will be rich with products. In 2017 growth of production on the enterprise in comparison to the level of 2016 made 12 percent, in total more than 2300 tonnes of products were manufactured. In 2018 the company plans to increase production on another ten percent.
As we should note, today products of the Salekhard fish processing plant are presented in all federal trade networks in Moscow and Moscow region, Saint Petersburg, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Omsk, Kirov, Tula regions, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk and Stavropol territories.
In 2017 the contract was signed with the company “Kavkaz region produkt”, in the near future products should appear in Kazakhstan. In addition, canned food from Yamal is delivered to the Institute of cosmonautics, where cosmonauts are trained, adapted and rehabilitated.