date:Apr 24, 2014
ficial harvest quotas conducted by the Juneau, Alaska-based McDowell Group showed that 50 to 60 percent of the Russian crab harvest in recent years has been illegal.
After ten years of consultations and Russian urging, on September of 2012 Japan and Russia finally signed an agreement obliging Japan to demand and verify Certificates of Origin for imports of both processed and unprocessed crab. However, actual implementation took more than a year, during which time Japans Fisheries Agency and Min