Baltic gold: Production of sprats in Russia will amount to 76 thousand tons by the end of 2023

Sprats have been one of the favorite snacks of Russians for more than a century. Classic sprats are smoked Baltic sprats in oil. In Soviet times, black bread sandwiches with Riga sprats and a boiled egg were always present on every table. But even now this product does not lose popularity among Russians. Until 2006, Latvia was the leader in sales of sprats on the Russian market. But with the introduction of restrictions on the supply of these products in 2006 and a complete ban on imports in 2015, the Russian sprat market has changed. Experts from the Center for Industry Expertise of the Russian Agricultural Bank conducted a study of the production and consumption of sprats over this period and concluded that Russian producers can fully satisfy the demand of the domestic consumer in high-quality sprats, and production by the end of the year can reach 217 million cans per year, or 76 thousand tons . During the period of restrictions on the supply of sprats to Russia from the Baltic ...