Fishermen in Russia's St. Petersburg spoke about the disruption of the start of sales of Finnish smelt

The start of the sales season for Finnish smelt in St. Petersburg, announced by the authorities, is canceled due to weather conditions. Local fishermen told about this in an interview with Nevsky News. Earlier, Smolny announced that the season would start on April 15. The authorities decided on the addresses of outlets where citizens and guests can buy fish, and promised to set affordable prices for it. However, Aleksey Lebedev, head of the trading company selling fish, said that there was nothing to sell yet, since the fishermen had not yet started mass smelt fishing in the Gulf of Finland. “While there is no fish, there is ice on the bay. It depends on the weather. There won't be any fish the day after tomorrow. There is nothing to sell yet. A little later, within a week, the ice should leave, and we will start fishing,” he said. Fisherman Mikhail Medvedev said the same. According to him, today "there is nothing to sell yet, only in Volkhov they started to catch." Finnish smelt ...