Sold fish for €625 million to Russia
The Russians love fish from Norway. Last year, they were eating 350,000 tons.
Export of seafood from Norway to Russia reached all time high in 2010.
- When we first introduced salmon and trout to the Russian market, they were considered to be expensive food. Nowadays more and more people can afford to eat salmon from Norway once or twice a week, says Jan Eirik Johnsen, Norwegian Seafood Export Council’s Marketing Director in Moscow.
Quoted by the portal of the Norwegian Embassy in Russia, Johnsen says Russia is the second largest market for Norwegian fish after France.
- We exported to Russia seafood worth over NOK 5 billion (€625 million), says Johnsen.
It is not only Norwegian salmon and trout that find its way to Russian dinner tables; also herring and capelin are very popular.
