Russia May Cut Pollock Exports This Year
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Eugene Gerden - August 1, 2017
Russia may cut pollock exports this year amid the ever-growing domestic demand for it, according to recent statements of spokesman Ilya Shestakov, head of Rosrybolovstvo.
Planned cuts are currently not disclosed. However, according to some sources close to the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, they may reach 30% of the total exports of pollock out of Russia, which is estimated at about 800,000 tonnes per year.
According to Rosrybolovstvo data, in the first half of the current year the consumption of pollock in Russia grew by almost two times, ...
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