The new office will be headed up by Sergei Kiselev.
Mr Kiselev has plenty of experience of the Russian trawling sector, with thirty years as a trawl master behind him, mostly on trawlers operated by MTF.
He graduated from navigation college in 1972 and ten years later graduated from the Arkhangelsk Fisheries Academy as a senior fishing gear technologist. He also spent three years in the Russian navy.