USA: Government purchases stimulate the domestic market of semi-finished fish products

Published 2023년 6월 22일

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The USDA has issued a bid for nearly a million pounds of frozen pollock and 50,000 cases of canned pink salmon to be delivered between September 1 and the end of the year. Additionally, the USDA has requested for large quantities of various frozen fish fillets and canned red salmon from August to the end of January 2024. This purchase is designed to assist local producers and is part of the USDA's regular procurement of fish. The Association of Fishing Fleet Owners (ASRF) in Russia has suggested that a similar approach could be effective in stimulating the development of the domestic fish market and promoting the expansion of deep processing in Russia.

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This week, the USDA issued a bid for nearly a million pounds of frozen pollock and about 50,000 cases of canned pink salmon. Deliveries will be carried out from September 1 until the end of the year. In addition, for shipments from August to the end of January 2024, the USDA issued a request for 11,700 cases of frozen pollock fillets, 900 cases of frozen haddock fillets, 3.7 million pounds of frozen salmon fillets, 53,100 cases of frozen Pacific sea bass fillets, 238,500 cases of frozen shrimp salad products, 50,400 cases of frozen blue whiting and 753,200 cases of canned red salmon. The US Department of Agriculture regularly purchases fish, which becomes a good help for local producers in selling fish products on the domestic market, including significant volumes of deep-processed products. “Such an instrument could work successfully in our country as well. This would become an effective stimulus for the development of the domestic fish market and the expansion of our own deep ...

Source: Fishretail