Lithuanian surimi producer Viciunai Group has closed a deal with Japanese seafood giant Marubeni to supply the Fortune 500 company with “premium class salmon trout fillets," the company confirmed to IntraFish.

“As to be expected in Japan, the requirements are extremely high, we use only highest quality fresh Norwegian salmon trout as our raw material, thus can only acquire it from a limited number of suppliers,” said Sarunas Matijosaitis, CEO of Viciunai Group.

Viciunai expects its sales in Japan to exceed €1 million ($1.2