Author: WARPE President German Zverev On March 20, 2024, during a meeting of the Federation Council, I referred to fish as the most traded food product (considering the share of fish products supplied to the global market in the total volume of fish caught and farmed). The accuracy of this assessment was indirectly confirmed two years later in the dismayed remark of the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kai Kallas after an unsuccessful meeting of the European Commission on July 13: "I did not know that fish has such geopolitical significance. Fish complicates many important geopolitical processes." Fish does NOT COMPLICATE many important geopolitical processes. Fish REFLECTS many important geopolitical processes. The large-scale restructuring of the global fish industry, accelerated by customs and tariff barriers and unilateral sanctions, inevitably increases the importance of the fish agenda in international and bilateral trade and economic ...