Russian export guides: Frozen crab to China and pollack fillets to Brazil

China is one of the world's largest consumers of shellfish and crustaceans. In 2020, imports of ice cream and live crab to the country amounted to 66.7 thousand tons in the amount of 958.6 million dollars.Russia, being the largest supplier of live crab to China with a share of 28%, currently occupies 4- e place. Russian exporters of frozen pollock fillets were not represented in the Brazilian market in 2020, however, pollock fillets are imported to the Republic of South America, which are produced from Russian raw materials at Chinese enterprises. In 2020, Brazil imported 3.6 thousand tons of frozen pollock fillets, of which 99.6% fell on supplies from China. With the modernization of Russian facilities for the production of products with high added value, the structure of fillet supplies to Brazil may change significantly. “China has always been a traditional marketing channel for Russian aquatic biological resources. Approximately 60% of the total Russian export of fish and ...