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Sea of Okhotsk , Rus. Okhotskoye More, 590,000 sq mi (1,528,100 sq km), northwest arm of the Pacific Ocean, W of the Kamchatka peninsula and the Kuril Islands. It is connected with the Sea of Japan by the Tatar and La Pérouse straits and with the Pacific Ocean by passages through the Kuril Islands. The sea is generally less than 5,000 ft (1,524 m) deep; its deepest point, near the Kuriles, is 11,033 ft (3,363 m). The sea is icebound from November to June and has frequent heavy fogs. Fishing and crabbing are carried on off W Kamchatka peninsula. Magadan and Korsakov, in the Russian Far East, are the largest ports.

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Okhotsk, Sea of Arm of the n Pacific Ocean off the e coast of Russia, bounded e by the Kamchatka Peninsula and se by the Kuril Islands. The chief ports are Magadan and Korsakov in Russia. Area: 1,528,000sq km (590,000sq mi).

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	RUSSIA: FOREIGN FISHING BOATS TO LEAVE SEA OF OKHOTSK BY 2001.(Brief Article) Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 6/15/2000
	RUSSIA: RUSSIA TO CLOSE OKHOTSK SEA TO FOREIGN FISHING.(Brief Article) Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 10/30/2001
	RUSSIA: SAKHALIN HEAD SEEKS TO BAR FOREIGN FISHING IN OKHOTSK SEA.(Igor Farkhutdinov, the governor of Sakhalin)(Brief Article) Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 3/8/2000

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