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Russia's "investment quota" (инвестиционные квоты) programme conditions a share of crab-fishing quota rights on recipients committing to build their catcher vessels at domestic shipyards rather than importing or leasing foreign-built tonnage. Since 2022, sanctions have cut Russian fishing companies off from Western shipyards, marine engines, and vessel-design software they previously relied on, leaving the domestic investment-quota fleet programme as the only route to renew ageing crab-catcher capacity. Order No. 3959-r taps the federal reserve fund — rather than the regular annual budget line — to bridge a funding gap on four near-complete hulls at Far Eastern yards, continuing a pattern of in-year reserve-fund top-ups (mirrored by the same week's RUB 1.8bn Industry Development Fund recapitalisation and RUB 5bn agricultural interest-subsidy top-up) to import-substitution-linked industrial programmes as calendar-year 2025 closed.
~RUB 6.4bn crab-catcher investment-quota programme running through 2026, reducing Russian fishing fleet reliance on foreign-built vessels and marine equipment.
import-substitution-adjacent industrial financing (Industry Development Fund, agricultural credit, and now shipbuilding), suggesting regular 2025 budget allocations for these programmes ran short of in-year demand.
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reserve-fund top-ups will be needed to complete the remaining vessels in the 13-vessel programme.