Pollock glut, transportation bottlenecks forcing prices lower in Russia

Published on
October 25, 2021
Russian rail transportation of pollock will be subsidized by the Russian Government in an attempt to resolve a pollock logistics bottleneck.

Russian authorities are looking for new ways to bring supplies of pollock from the country’s Far East – where most of the species is caught – to the country’s more populated west.

As part of that effort, the government announced it will subsidize shipments …

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Contributing Editor reporting from Saint Petersburg, Russia

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