Between 1993 and 1995, 12 seiners were built in Norway on bareboat charter terms under the guarantees of the Russian government. Each vessel has a freight carrying capacity of 470 tonnes and a possible productivity of 30 tonnes of frozen fish per day. On average, one seiner can process up to 2 tonnes of aquatic biological resources annually.
Until the lease was paid off, the ships were formally owned by a foreign company, and in January 2009 they lost their fishing licence due to the ban on foreign-flag vessels fishing in Russian waters. The seiners' crews (600 people) were unable to work for 18 months.
The problem was resolved following the meeting between Kamchatka Governor Alexei Kuzmitsky and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in early June 2010. On June 22, the ships became the property of the Russian company East Kamchatka, a subsidiary of the Akros Company.
On July 2, 2010, two of the company's seiners went out on their first catch. Only 7 of the 12 seiners could fish this summer. They had fishing quotas of 9,200 tonnes for cod and about 3,500 tonnes for halibut.