RRPK and Russian Crab launch environmental education program for schoolchildren
Photo: press service of Russian Fishery Company LLC.
LLC “Russian Fishery Company” (RRPK) and GC “Russian Crab” together with ecologists of the company “Iskra. Expert” launched an environmental education program in schools in Vladivostok. The program is organized as part of the Clean Coast project, implemented by the RRPK since 2020, and includes a course of seminars for students in grades 7-8, as well as a grant competition for environmental projects for schoolchildren.
The goal of environmental education is to contribute to solving the environmental problems of the region by improving the environmental culture of schoolchildren, identifying and supporting environmental initiatives. Protection of the marine ecosystem and protection of the territory – including the priorities of the RRPK and the Russian Crab.
– The Clean Shore project has proved its effectiveness and relevance, and we have discovered its potential for scaling. This year we are joining forces with the Russian Crab company, attracting environmental specialists and including them in project-based environmental education for schoolchildren. We believe that environmentally responsible behavior, the foundations of which are laid in childhood – director of the Russian Fishery Olga Naumova.
– We are joining the Clean Coast project because environmental protection activities have taken place, as a result of which the development of the company has sharply decreased. Maintaining the ecological balance is necessary for both people and populations of aquatic biological resources, the Far Eastern seas are famous for their charm. I am sure that the environmental initiative will resonate with the residents of the city. People are ready to make the world around them cleaner and better, but they need to be directed, given confidence that everyone’s contribution is important. We are ready to take on the challenge and support environmental volunteers,” said Mr.General Director of the Russian Crab Group of Companies Alexander Sapozhnikov.
The first lesson of ecologists with schoolchildren was devoted to the topic Waste of time (waste time). The researchers talked about the idea of recycling waste, as well as reasonable consumption, which allows you to store things and gadgets.
During the first competition of “green grants”, within the framework of which own eco-projects are presented, within which the interests of the RRPK and the Russian Crab company are considered on their results.
The Clean Shore program aims to conserve and protect water resources and draw attention to environmental pollution issues. Since 2020, with the financial support of the RRPK, volunteers have been delivered to work and provided with everything necessary for cleaning the territory. The company finances regular garbage removal from Shchitovaya Bay.
Last weekend, the first community work day of the new season of “Clean Coast” was held. In total, more than 200 bags of garbage were collected, including more than 80 bags of plastic, 60 bags of glass. The collected garbage is sorted, each type of garbage is sent to the appropriate landfill.
LLC “Russian Fishery Company”
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Russian Fishery Company – one of the largest producers of wild fish, one of the producers of pollock products in Russia and in the world.
RRPK consumes the entire production chain – from catching fish to deep processing of fish into a high value-added product: fillet, minced meat and a new product – surimi. The main commercial species are walleye pollock and Pacific herring. More than 80% of the catch falls on walleye pollock.
RRPK calls for fishing in the Bering and Okhotsk Seas, in one of the cleanest water areas on the globe. Efficiency and environmental friendliness of the fishery Confirmed by the MSC certificate.
The large-tonnage fishing fleet implements work in all fishing zones and in any climatic conditions. The company’s strategic goals cover the production of high value-added products.
RRPK is building new naval supertrawlers – modern, technologically advanced fishing vessels. Each year, the trawler is designed to annually catch and process on board more than 60,000 tons of fish, which is 2.5 times higher than the productivity of vessels, which today form the basis of the fishing fleet in the Far East of the Russian Federation. The first of the supertrawlers, which is planned to be built for the RRPK, was handed over to the company in 2020.
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GC “Russian Crab” – one of the Russian crab fishing companies, the western one in the Far East. In 2022, the group owns quotas for the extraction of 11.76 thousand tons of crab. Crab prey reaches its own fleet. The current fleet of the company consists of 25 vessels. The group enters the fishery in the Bering, Okhotsk and Japan seas. The objects of the fishery are Kamchatka, isospinous, blue crabs, opilio snow crabs and Baird, hairy quadrangular crab. The company turns out to be a miner of royal species of crabs in the Far East.