Russia-Japan anti-smuggling agreement shuts down Russian crab deliveries to Japan
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Itar-Tass] - December 22, 2014 -
TOKYO, Calls of Russian ships at Japanese harbours with crab catches almost halted after the bilateral agreement on counteraction to illegal, undeclared and unregulated fishing took effect on December 10, local authorities told TASS on Monday.
"Since December 10 we have not had a single ship with crabs from Russia," a representative in a port of Mombetsu municipality on the northernmost island of Hokkaido which is the main centre for export of these sea products from Russia told TASS. But four ships with Russian crabs called at this port on December 9, a day before the accord took effect.
On the same day nine ships with crab were reported at the port of Wakkanai, Hokkaido, another quite important hub of crabs exported from Russia. "After the accord was enacted in the previous week only one ship arrived," a representative of the sea product department of local municipality told TASS.
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