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Aug 18, 2015 (newstodate): A vague glimpse of hope for an end to Russia's import of Norwegian salmon, enforced since August 2014.
On its website, the Russian veterinary authority Rosselkhoznadzor has announced that it will conduct inspections of Norwegian salmon producers, in cooperation with the vet services of the Eurasian Economic Union comprising Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, with Armenia and Kyrgyzstan as candidate members.
If carried through, the inspections should reportedly take place by the end of August.
Russia has claimed health problems in the Norwegian salmon as the root cause of its sanctions that are otherwise directed towards the EU countries and excluding other Nordic producers such as Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
In the meantime the Norwegian salmon exports have found byways to enter Russia via Belarus and other venues, but Russia is now to clamp down on all illegally imported perishables found at markets, border crossing points and other sites such as warehouses and logistics centers.
Russia annually imported up to 180,000 tonnes of fresh salmon and trout, in addition to another 100,000 tonnes of frozen salmon and trout.
Of these volumes, Norway normally accounted for about 75 percent of Russia's import of fresh salmon.
On its website, the Russian veterinary authority Rosselkhoznadzor has announced that it will conduct inspections of Norwegian salmon producers, in cooperation with the vet services of the Eurasian Economic Union comprising Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, with Armenia and Kyrgyzstan as candidate members.
If carried through, the inspections should reportedly take place by the end of August.
Russia has claimed health problems in the Norwegian salmon as the root cause of its sanctions that are otherwise directed towards the EU countries and excluding other Nordic producers such as Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
In the meantime the Norwegian salmon exports have found byways to enter Russia via Belarus and other venues, but Russia is now to clamp down on all illegally imported perishables found at markets, border crossing points and other sites such as warehouses and logistics centers.
Russia annually imported up to 180,000 tonnes of fresh salmon and trout, in addition to another 100,000 tonnes of frozen salmon and trout.
Of these volumes, Norway normally accounted for about 75 percent of Russia's import of fresh salmon.