Foreign suppliers in fishing industry suffer from European sanctions - Rosrybolovstvo
BRUSSELS. April 27 (Interfax) - The effects of European sanctions against Russia on the country's fishing industry have been felt only by foreign suppliers exporting products to Russia's market, Deputy Agriculture Minister and the head of Russia's fisheries agency Rosrybolovstvo, Ilya Shestakov, told Interfax in Brussels.
"In terms of trade, yes, supplies from Norway and Iceland have ended. And they suffered for this. We have not felt this in other aspects of our cooperation. Just as we cooperated with Norway and Iceland on regulating fisheries, providing each other with mutual quotas and scientific cooperation, so too we will continue to cooperate. No political issues are arising between us," the minister said, taking part in the international exhibition Seafood Expo Global/PorcessingGlobal in Brussels after work on Thursday.
He said that the sanctions "gave certain advantages to the domestic market. We were able to replace a portion of Atlantic salmon with wild salmon from the Far East and we have made extreme progress in processing."
"Indeed our fish has been represented in sales much better. If before we exported red salmon, then today it is present on Russian counters just as humpback salmon used to be," he said.