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The state programme has been drafted by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture pursuant to the Russian Government’s Directive No.1950-r of 11 November 2010 on approving a list of state programmes of the Russian Federation (Clause 26). The Russian Ministry of Agriculture is the principal executor of the state programme, the Federal Agency for Fishery has been designated as its co-executor, and the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation as a participating agency.
The directive defines the aims, goals and main directions of the development of the fishing industry for the period until 2020, as well as the mechanisms for fishing industry development and efficiency indicators.
The state programme is aimed at securing the fishing industry’s transition from reliance on raw material exports to an innovative type of development based on the preservation, reproduction and rational use of aquatic bioresources, the introduction of new forms of technology, and ensuring the global competitiveness of goods and services produced by the Russian fishing industry.
The state programme includes six sub-programmes: Managing the Fish Industry, Aquatic Resource Development, Research and Innovation, Protection and Oversight, Modernisation and Incentives, and Ensuring State Programme Implementation.
The state programme will be implemented between 2013 and 2020 in two stages: the first stage from 2013 to 2017, and the second stage from 2018 to 2020.
Depending on the amount of funding available for the implementation of the state programme, the development of the Russian fishing industry may follow two scenarios.
1) The basic scenario implies that financial support will be within the limits of the budget allocations for the next fiscal year and the planning period, as handed down by the Finance Ministry, and with consideration given to the scenario conditions of the long-term forecast for the Russian Federation’s socioeconomic development.
In keeping with this scenario, the overall sum of funding for the entire implementation period will amount to 90.6 billion roubles, of which 88.9 billion roubles will be allocated from the federal budget and 1.7 billion roubles from extra-budgetary sources.
Under this scenario, the production of aquatic biological resources will amount to 4.5 million metric tonnes by 2020, that of aquaculture products – 150,000 metric tonnes, and that of fish and processed or canned fish products – 3.9 million tonnes. The average per capita consumption of fish and fish products by the population of the Russian Federation will amount to 22.7 kilograms per year; the share of Russian-produced seafood products on the domestic market will constitute 68.2%; and labour productivity will grow by 37% (on 2011).
2) The optimal scenario implies that the fishing industry’s physical facilities will undergo large-scale upgrades. The government will be active in influencing the economic processes in the industry and will improve relevant laws and regulations. The public-private partnership will be promoted and new federal and agency targeted programmes will be implemented.
In keeping with this scenario, the implementation budget for 2013-2020 will amount to 191.9 billion roubles, of which 184.2 billion will be allocated from the federal budget (there is an additional need for 95.3 billion roubles), 5.9 billion roubles from the consolidated budgets of the regions of the Russian Federation, and 1.7 billion roubles from extra-budgetary sources.
Under the optimal scenario, the production of aquatic biological resources will amount to 6.2 million metric tonnes by 2020, that of aquaculture products – 410,000 tonnes, and that of fish and processed or canned fish products – 5.3 million tonnes. The average per capita consumption of fish and fish products by the population of the Russian Federation will amount to 28 kilograms per year; the share of Russian-produced seafood products on the domestic market will constitute 85%; and labour productivity will grow by 70% (on 2011).
The effectiveness of the state programme as a whole will be judged on the basis of both year-over-year growth indicators compared with the previous year’s performance and on adjusted figures with base year data used as the point of reference.
The draft was approved by the Government of the Russian Federation at its meeting on 28 February 2013.
The text of the state programme will be posted on the official website of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture.