Russia is clarifying the rules for granting ponds for aquaculture.

Also, the deadlines for providing the service are specified. Previously, in order to consider the issue of granting the water object for use, the executive body or local self-government body could request additional information from the Federal Agency for Fishery, the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre, and Cartography, and the Federal Subsoil Management Agency within two working days from the date of receipt of the application. Now this information must be requested on the same day.

An entrepreneur is entitled to attach documents with information about the area and the date of putting a specific hydraulic structure (HS) into operation to the application for the provision of the water object. The resolution also eliminates the requirement for the mandatory provision of the HS registration code in the application for the provision of the water object for use. The document came into force from September of the current year and will be valid until the same month of 2027.

An exception is the point regarding the exemption from the requirement to indicate the registration code, which has already entered into legal force.

For other types of fish, a decrease in the catch is observed. The catch of capelin has decreased by 38% to 19.5 thousand tons. The herring catch has decreased by 16% to 20.8 thousand tons, and cod by five percent to 132,500. In general, the volume of fish caught since the beginning of the year has increased by 2.9 percent, reaching almost 1.8 million tons.

Traditionally, the vast majority of the catch, about 81 percent, was made by fishermen from the Far East. Also, since the beginning of the year, fish production has increased. During this period, 1 million 183 thousand 800 tons of fish were processed, which is two percent more than in the same period last year.

The portal also provides data from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), according to which the country annually produces about 90 million tons of solid biomass, from which over 18 million tons of liquid product are obtained in the same period. At the same time, large biofuel producers are in demand for liquid by-products from palm oil itself, such as palm fatty acid distillate and wastewater.

This demand is supported by the current legislation of the European Union countries, which stimulates the use of raw material waste for the production of alternative fuels. It is also worth noting that the expansion of the use of palm raw materials for biofuel production will significantly reduce the volumes of global palm oil supplies from Malaysia.

Overall, this year, under preferential leasing agreements, farmers plan to supply at least 8,500 units of various equipment, which is 8.5 percent higher than last year's figures. In this season, agricultural producers increased purchases through a leasing company by 7,500 units of agricultural machinery for spring field work, which is 22% more than last year.