Ban on fish import closes factory doors
 

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

“Work has been discontinued, as shipments of live fish from 
Norwegian vessels stopped due to the sanctions”, the 
company’s manager Mikhail Zub says to ITAR-TASS. “We have 
written a letter to the Prime Minister, but have still not 
received any answer”.

 

“If the problem is not solved soon, we will have to file a 
lawsuit against the Russian Government”, he said.

Murmansk Fish Combinat is technologically only capable of 
processing live fish. Until Russia imposed sanctions on 
import of fish from Norway on August 7, the fish was 
brought to Murmansk by Norwegian fish carriers. In Russia 
this type of fishing is almost non-existent because of the 
technological backwardness of the domestic fishing fleet, 
Zub says.

According to the Russian Fisheries Agency, there are only 
two fish carriers in Russia, ITAR-TASS writes.