CREATION OF FISHERY CLUSTER AS STRATEGIC DIRECTION OF INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KARELIA
The article is devoted to the questions of development and creation of a fishery cluster in the Republic of Karelia. The fishery sector is considered as one of the specializing sectors of the Karelian economy, having good prospects for development and possessing considerable multiplicative effect already today. Therefore, when forming strategic objectives and tasks, and strategic directions of the sector development, as well as a system of strategic projects and a set of measures, it is necessary to consider their stimulating influence on other sectors of economy, and also on social, budgetary spheres, and the labor market in those municipalities where the main productions are located. Today the fishing industry is one of the specialization sectors of the Republic of Karelia. The region has the necessary internal preconditions for creating the fishery cluster. In particular, in the sphere of fish farming in Karelia there are 56 farms specializing in cultivation of commercial products, stocking material and primary processing of fish. All in all, in the fishing industry of the Republic of Karelia there are 148 organizations, employing more than 2,5 thousand people (0,8 % of employment). These enterprises provide 1,5 % of GRP of the Republic of Karelia, or 2,5 billion rubles. The volume of growing commodity trout and production of fish stocking material increased 60 times from 1993 to 2016, and according to the results of 2016 amounted to over 22 thousand tons.