Russia: Sea cucumber exports to China up 92% in the first quarter of 2021

Exports of the Far Eastern sea cucumber in the first quarter of this year increased by 92% compared to the first quarter of 2020. China was the only importer, with a total of 8646.7 kg exported. trepang. In 2021, China seriously increased the volume of purchases of ice cream, dried and salted Far Eastern sea cucumber; the valuable sea cucumber was not supplied to China at all in live form. The volume of exports from Russia to China of sea cucumber of all types of processing grown by the mariculture farms of the Primorsky Territory and mined in Sakhalin increased by 92.16% in the first quarter of 2021, the cost of the product remained approximately at the same level as in 2020. In the first quarter of 2020, only 677.5 kg were delivered to China. trepang. The total export volume of the Far Eastern sea cucumber in the first quarter of 2021 amounted to 8646.7 kg, of which only 7072.7 (81.8%) were dried sea cucumber, the rest 1574 kg. (18.2%) were products in ice cream and salted form. ...