FAR EASTERN PRINCIPLE: TO FEED THE STATE

Not so long ago, in the 60-s, 70-s and 80-s, the Far Eastern fishermen supplied with fish and marine products the whole former Soviet Union, the sixth part of the Earth's dry-land.

So what did happen? What happened in the 90-s? Why the fish and seafoods disappeared from the store shelves in the Far Eastern fishing metropolitans like Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Magadan, Yuzno-Sakhalinsk, let alone the former Soviet, currently foreign, border line cities like Kushka and Brest?

It is clear why in Moscow, Saratov, Tomsk, and Ekaterinburg: exorbitant rail transportation tariffs and trade margins leveled the cost of our once inexpensive though delicious and nutritious fish with that of the European meat.

A country unable to feed itself is doomed... It is doomed for destruction, chaos, hostilities... For loss of economic independence, national dignity...

Today's market economy open our eyes for pollock, which appears to be a delicacy in the world markets, generously paid for. Let alone crab, shrimps, trepangs ...

This is the "second truth" why the fish stores of Russian are empty: thousands and thousands ton of fish and seafoods are exported from the Russian Economic Zone to the markets in the South Asia, America, and Europe.

The price paid for fish product in Russia, to tell the truth, does not suite Russian fishermen. It is not profitable to sell fish even in Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Of course there are some brave people, who try probe the Russian internal markets. For example, Nickolai Nikitenko, Director of Vladivostok Base of Trawler and Reefer Fleet. He hosted the pollock-tasting luncheons. Merchants from Siberia, first cautiously, then without reserve whatsoever, tasted the dishes. Evidently, the Russians liked the Russian-made Far Eastern product of American quality standard.