Russia Holds Off on Banning Canned Fish and Sprat Imports from EU and US, For Now
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Eugene Gerden - June 29, 2015
The Russian government decided to suspend the imposition of a ban on the imports of canned fish and sprats from the EU and the US, desoute a recent extension of sanctions by Western countries.
According to Ilya Shestakov, head of the Russian Federal Agency for Fishery (Rosrybolovstvo), the imposition of ban should have become a response to the extension of sanctions against Russia by Western countries, as well as a move, aimed at strenghtening of the Russian national food security.
Shestakov added that Russia has its own strong production of canned food, and in particular canned fish, importing of it from those countries, which do not pose sanctions against Russia, and in particular African...
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