Officials from Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) met veterinary officials from the Baltic states last Friday and told them “imports of fish products from Latvia and Estonia to Russia will be halted shortly,” the agency said in a statement on its website.
Russia said it would send statements of alleged violations it discovered to Latvia and Estonia’s veterinarian services over the next week. Russia has already introduced sweeping bans of meat and produce from the European Union in retaliation against its imposition of sanctions on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.
Rosselkhoznadzor spokesperson Yulia Trofimova clarified that tinned and preserved fish was not included in the list of products affected by the trade restrictions imposed by Russia on several Western markets until August 2015.