date:Apr 24, 2014
tation of the agreement has been long.
Russia has pushed Japan for years to close its market to illegal, unreported and undocumented (IUU) marine products. Consultations between the two countries began in 2002, with the intention of reaching an agreement covering a wide variety of seafood species, but in the event, only crab was covered. Crab, mainly king and snow (opilio) crab, is the most valuable of the poached Russian products that find a market in Japan. A comparison of import data with of