February 1, 2011

Norway sells US$857.46-million fish to Russia

Last year, seafood export from Norway to Russia reached an all time high with 350,000 tonnes of fish.

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 NOK5 billion (EUR625 million, US$857.46 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.