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The Day of No Fish
Norwegian Seafood Export Council has recommended the local producers to suspend shipping fish to Russia. The root cause of the decision was a new requirement of Russia’s vets that covers the fish delivered to the country via the European Union. As a result, from 35 to 40 trucks with a weekly supply of salmon and trout have crowded on border with Finland and Estonia. If the matter isn’t urgently settled, the prices for salmon will soar 10 percent to 15 percent in addition to more than 1.5 fold growth reported since early this year.
The recommendation released by Norwegian Seafood Export Council past week covers only the product delivered by motor transport. The Council said in particular it finds too risky to ship fish to Russia by motor transport in today’s environment.
By this move, the Norwegians responded to the letter of Yevgeny Nepoklonov, who is the deputy head of Russia’s Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service (Rosselkhoznadzor). Nepoklonov ordered September 4 to demand the transit certificate from each consignment of livestock product, including the fish, if it is delivered from Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
To be more precise, Russia rejects all transit cargo from the European Eunion with no import documents made out by the E.U. veterinarians.
The purpose to attain is to prevent the import of product under fake certificates, officials of Russia’s Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service explained Thursday.
Norway is the biggest producer of salmon, accounting for 55 percent of global output. Russia annually imports from it around 23,400 tons of cooled salmon worth nearly $90 million.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 08, 2006
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