Norway is now shipping salmon fry direct to two Murmansk salmon farms
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Interfax] - August 21, 2014 -
MOSCOW, Norway has begun the shipment of salmon fry (juvenile salmon) or smolt directly to two fish farming enterprises in the Murmansk region.
"Immediately after the publication of the Russian government's decision allowing smolt to be removed from the sanction list, Norway began shipping it to two Murmansk enterprises that raise fish," the executive director of the Fish Union, Sergei Gudkov, told Interfax.
This consignment of salmon fry is comprised of 200,000 juvenile fish. "And on Thursday a similar consignment will be shipped," he said.
Last week, a consignment of salmon fry with 202,000 fish was returned to Norway due to the "food embargo". "It is already irretrievably lost," Gudkov said. "And that consignment that is being shipped now is not without losses, due to a forced delay, not all of the salmon fry will survive transport, but this is a small loss in comparison with what could have been with the ban in place," he said
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