The future price of salmon remains uncertain, though government subsidies aim to make Far Eastern fish more affordable within Russia

For Russian fishermen, 2023 turned out to be a very successful year: the volume of salmon was the second largest result in the entire history of observations. But now the products need to be delivered from the Far East to the central regions of the country so that the price does not skyrocket. OTR TV channel found out how they want to support suppliers and what will happen to the cost of preserves and other products. The Russian government will create a mechanism for subsidizing railway transportation of fish products by mid-April. This task was set by President Vladimir Putin. Fish production volumes increased significantly last year, so the Ministry of Agriculture is preparing an initiative for additional financial support for transportation, Izvestia reported. This will reduce the average cost of a kilogram of fish products by seven rubles, the department believes. More than half of the volume of fish products that Chile and Turkey prepared for import ended up in the Central ...