Major seafood companies call for US ban on imports of Russian king crab, pollock, salmon
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton - Aug 22, 2014
Responding to the Russian boycott of US seafood that has impacted salmon roe and whiting, a majority of the major Alaskan Seafood Processors are calling on Congress and the President to enact a retaliatory ban on Russian seafood imports.
Icicle, Ocean Beauty, Peter Pan, Trident, Unisea along with Alaska General Seafoods, Alyeska, Westward, and North Pacific Seafoods, along with the Bering Sea crab harvesters, all joined in this call for a trade action.
Should the US ban Russian seafood imports, the market impact would be consequential.
In 2013, for example, the US imported over $220 million Russian king crab and snow crab, representing about 2/3rd the value of all US seafood imports from Russia. For king crab, Russian product normally accounts for around 90% of the total US supply. This year, imports of king crab have been 50% higher through June than in 2013, at 12.5 million lbs, vs. 8.3 million lbs. through June of 2013.
Other major products would affected would be pollock and salmon. In 2013, the US imported 63 million pounds of pollock blocks, 90% of which are from China...
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