date:Apr 24, 2014
ussian government increased fishery surveillance in its Far East, poachers shifted their effort from opilio crab to the higher value red king crab, looking to get higher returns for the risks they were taking, and imports spiked. The Russian Federal Customs Service showed legal exports to Japan of only 600 metric tons (MT) in the first half of the year, while Japanese import figures showed 30 times that.
Now that the Japanese government has began to require the certificates, the local economies