OREANDA-NEWS. April 19, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting in Murmansk on development of shoreline infrastructure for intake, processing, storage and transport of fish products.

During the meeting, Vladimir Putin said that the government is ready to consider increasing subsidies for interest rates on loans for organisations in the fishing industry and increasing the amount of so-called preferential lending and short-term loans. Mr Putin pointed out that, 600 million roubles were allocated in 2009 to support the fishing industry.