OREANDA-NEWS  Supplies of Russian frozen fish to the European Union in August fell to their lowest levels in ten years, according to data from Eurostat, which was analyzed by RIA Novosti.

Thus, in August 2026, the EU imported 5.92 million euros worth of frozen fish from Russia. This was the lowest since January 2016, when shipments totaled 5.28 million euros. Deliveries decreased by 1.7 times in a month, and by 2.5 times in a year.
 
However, the EU imported fish fillets and meat the most in August: shipments decreased by 10% month-on-month and increased by 37% year-on-year to 60.6 million euros. These were mainly ice cream fillets of pollock (48.98 million euros), cod (8.2 million) and freshwater fish (2.2 million).

Also in August, the European Union bought dried cod and other cooked fish from Russia for 2.4 million euros (21% less on a monthly basis and 23% more on an annual basis). The association bought another 237,000 euros worth of chilled sea flounder and 9,000 euros worth of frozen squid.

In total, at the end of the month, the EU imported 69.2 million euros worth of Russian seafood, which is 14% less than in July and 13% more than last August. As a result, the Russian Federation ranked ninth among seafood suppliers in the Russian Federation. The top five are Norway (772.3 million euros), Ecuador (128.4 million), Great Britain (116.7 million), China (105.9 million) and Morocco (96.5 million).