The price of Russian fish on the way from the manufacturer on the counter grows to three or four times. Such data is resulted on a press-conferences in the Petersburg press center TASS head of the Federal Agency for fishery Ilya Shestakov.

"Now FAS is conducting the investigation, but we their investigation already carried out in the framework of the Agency. The difference from wholesale prices the far East to the consumer grows here in three or four times, and four or five dealers occurs on the route of fish from the Far East to Saint Petersburg and Moscow", - said the head of Rosrybolovstvo. "The task for us is to establish direct contacts between producers and processors and the network. The volume of supply of Russian fish significant", - he added.

According to Shestakov, will also solve the issue of upgrading the transport capacity for the delivery of fish from the Far East to the European part of the country, now it is studied jointly by the Russian Federal fisheries Agency and Russian Railways.

"The main problem is logistics costs and a large number of intermediary companies, "- said the head of Department.

Another problem to be addressed, Shestakov believes the shift in consumer preference from imported to domestic fish. "We have the dominance of Atlantic salmon, Norway has invested quite a lot in marketing campaign to promote this product, and asking her, and in fact we have not so many people who know what a sockeye salmon and brook trout," said he.

However, the Agency has called "insane" the idea of establishing a national network of fish trade. "Was a crazy idea of creating a state is that the state has invested and has begun to create the state stores, but we do not support and believe that retail is the matter of the business community", - said Shestakov.

For the first five months of the year 2016 in Russia caught 1.96 million tons of fish, which is 1.5% more than in the same period of 2015. The largest volume of catch provides the far East 1.3 million tons. Fish production has increased in 2016 by 0.5% and amounted to 1.09 million tons, mainly, the increase was due to the production of frozen fillets and canned fish.