Though Russia's ban on seafood imports from the US and other countries last week was broadly a retaliation against economic sanctions placed on the country, one former US politician's scathing anti-Russian seafood rant was one more reason for US seafood being shut out of the country, according to a top-ranking Russian official.
Oleg Rykov, attache on Fisheries with the State Fisheries Committee of the Russian Federation with the Embassy of the Russian Federation in US, told IntraFish an opinion piece written by George Hochbrueckner in newspaper The Hill calling for a boycott of Russian fish was part of the reason seafood was targeted.
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