The Russian Economic Development Ministry has published a draft bill proposing to withdraw African Clarius catfish (Clarias gariepinus) under the 2014 food embargo. If approved, in theory, the bill could help other fish farms to battle for foreign broodstock.
Russia completely banned the import of broodstock among other food and agricultural products on Aug. 7, 2014.
The goal was to limit market access for countries, which had supported sectoral sanctions introduced over the Russian annexation of Crimea a few months earlier. The other rhetoric of the counter-sanctions was to support domestic producers via trade restrictions, or by other words, import substitution…
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