Russian Far East fishing company welcomes new seiners into service

The V.I. Lenin Fishing Collective Farm on Kamchatka in Russia's Far East took delivery of two vessels in a new series of compact seine netters from local shipyard Torsiotest on Friday, May 16.

Avacha and Oktyabr'skiy ("October") were built to a design by local engineering firm Forss Technology in compliance with Russian Maritime Register Shipping requirements.

The seiners are designed to catch fish in raw form with processing only to be done later at onshore factories.

Because there is no need for onboard processing facilities, the vessels can be built to be as small as possible and with shallow draughts to permit access to a wider range of deep-sea and near-shore areas.

Each vessel has all-steel construction, a length of 26.45 metres, a beam of eight metres, a draught of only 2.2 metres, a depth of 3.65 metres, a displacement of 306.3 tonnes, a gross tonnage of 211, and a cargo hold capacity of 90 cubic metres.

Power is provided by a diesel engine with a rated output of 441 kW driving a fixed-pitch propeller.