Two trawlers belonging to the Pileng fishing company were among the first to arrive at the scene after they received radio messages that the Dalny Vostok was sinking, general director Vasily Velmeskin told Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Footage taken from an emergency ministry helicopter searching for survivors showed clear and calm weather as other trawlers steamed towards the area of the accident.
The work on such trawlers is gruelling and often tires the men, adding to the risk factor, Kovalchuk said.
In spring and autumn, the ancient port of Grado is a delight, with fishing trawlers moored on a canal in the centre of town.
According to Kovalchuk, Russian trawlers such as the Dalny Vostok, which clean and freeze fish on board, often illegally take on foreign labourers at sea to get around cumbersome labour migration regulations.
The donation came ahead of a decision on whether super trawlers would be allowed in Australian waters.
Francisco Gonzalez, a Spanish photographer who worked as an interpreter during five expeditions on Soviet trawlers of the same make as the Dalny Vostok between 1983 and 1987, told the Guardian that the work was highly dangerous.
Scottish saltires are almost as hard to find on the islands as the union flag rather it is their own flags, Scandinavian-style crosses on blue and red backgrounds, that billow from trawlers and flagstaffs.
Then, under a pitiless and unopposed German bombardment from the air, the shattered remnants of an Allied army, without stores, without food, without equipment, were rescued from Europe in tugs and trawlers and yachts and rowing boats, in any odd scratch vessel that could make the Channel crossing.
And it is especially satisfying among Grimbarians, who have much to grumble about, and in whose enduring attachment to the sea, long after the trawlers stopped steaming, is a note of well-judged defiance as well as regret.
From their trawlers scraping the floors of the seas to their dams impounding sediment by the gigatonne, from their stripping of forests to their irrigation of farms, from their mile-deep mines to their melting of glaciers, humans were bringing about an age of planetary change.
