Russia’s seafood exports increased 6.7 percent in the first six months of the year despite COVID-19-linked restrictions, reaching 1.16 million metric tons, according to the country’s statistics agency, Rosstat.
Frozen unprocessed exports rose 8.6 percent to 1 million metric tons, accounting for 86.2 percent of the total.
As usual, frozen pollock exports made up the bulk of the country’s overall seafood exports, reaching 498,200 metric tons, up 3 percent from last year’s figure and accounting for 42.9
