Supplies of pollock fillets to the Russian domestic market exceeded exports for the first time

In the first half of 2024, exports of the main types of pollock products decreased by 3% in physical terms, to 493 thousand tons, and by 24% in value terms, to $692 million, compared to the same period last year, reports Alexey Buglak, President of the Pollock Producers Association. In a commentary for the Federal State Budgetary Institution Agroexport, the expert explained that the reorientation of supplies is primarily due to the growth of demand in the domestic market. However, as the expert noted, the increase in supplies is accompanied by a decrease in prices to gain a competitive advantage, which affects profitability. The outlook for the current year is ambiguous, the expert believes. On the one hand, as the expert predicts, this year the dynamics will be negative both in volume and in monetary terms. Thus, the prices and volume of supplies may be affected by the introduction of a 13.7% duty on Russian products and products from third countries produced from Russian raw ...