Russia: The Far East is experiencing a crisis due to a halt in the export of pollock to China

Published 2021년 6월 28일

Tridge summary

A surge in Alaska pollock, a staple for China, has led to a crisis in the Far East as the country's warehouses and enterprises struggle to store and process the excess. The situation is worsened by China's halt on imports due to coronavirus sanitary restrictions, resulting in Russia redirecting its exports to countries like Korea and Japan. The crisis has led to a quarterly price increase and a scarcity of storage space for the unsold fish. The Association of Fishery Enterprises of the Primorsky Territory is advocating for a state order to purchase the fish for local needs as a potential solution.
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There is a fish crisis in the Far East. Alaska pollock, caught in the northern seas in the spring, turned out to be unclaimed by the main consumer of this fish - China, and local warehouses and enterprises are not ready to store and process such volumes. How the industry survives in the new conditions, OTR correspondent Anna Sazonova reports. In the store for 89, and in the market for 165 rubles per kilo. The price of Far Eastern pollock on the coastal counters has grown by a quarter in three years, even despite the regional price control program. - There is no dynamics to reduce the cost. As everything is becoming more expensive in our country, so the fish is becoming more expensive in our country. - Go shopping: new prices every day - I think it is as expensive as possible. To live in the Primorsky Territory, where there are water bodies around, I mean the sea, there is fish, but it is not affordable. In spring, fishermen caught almost 20% less pollock than last year. In theory, ...
Source: Otr-online

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