The event was attended by Vice-Governor Sergei Sidorenko, representatives of relevant departments, fishing companies, retailers, reported on the website of the administration.

According to Sergey Sidorenko, the beginning of the fishery and returning to the shelves of herring iwashi is a significant event.

According to the head of the company "Dobroflot" Alexander Efremov, in the near future iwashi will be back on the shelves.

"Iwashi is a very inexpensive product, and if the restored production capacity, which would bring it to the population, according to our estimates, this will greatly reduce the cost of fish on the tables of Russian consumers. It will be the tastiest and cheapest fish that is extracted in Russia", — he said.

Earlier it became known about the return of this product to the Russian market, although did not catch iwashi for 25 years because he was exhausted stocks.