Red caviar (Russian market)

2022: 27.1% reduction in production to 9636 tonnes

The production of red caviar in Russia in 2022 amounted to 9636 tons, which is 27.1% less than a year earlier. Such data in August 2023 was released by analysts at TK Solutions.

According to their estimates, the size of the salmon fish caviar market in the period from 2017 to 2022. grew by an average of 5.2%. The leading federal district of the Russian Federation for the production of salmon fish caviar is Far Eastern (87.7% of production for the period from 2017 to 2022), in second place is the North-West Federal District (share - 5.9%), the study says.

Production of red caviar in 2022 left 9636 tons

Ilya Shestakov, head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, warned about a sharp reduction in red caviar production in the Russian Federation in September 2022.

We catch less than in the even 2020. Accordingly, the forecast for the production of caviar is almost half as much, about 8-9 thousand tons will be according to the results of this [2022] year. Of course, for us, given the lack of supplies of Atlantic salmon, red fish to the Russian market, of course, it is important for us to provide at least wild salmon with the domestic market. And so that prices are available. Now, unfortunately, the price due to such a lean year has increased significantly, - he said then.

According to estimates by the analytical company Nielsen IQ, sales of red caviar in Russia from January to September 2022 decreased in physical terms by 7.5% compared to the same period in 2022. She does not give absolute numbers. For 8 months of this year, 514 tons of red caviar were sold in the country's largest retail chains, Rusprodsoyuz calculated. According to a representative of this organization, this is indeed 7% less than in 2021. At the same time, in monetary terms, sales of such products increased - by 2.1% to 1.9 billion rubles, according to Rusprodsoyuz. The average retail price of domestic red caviar in September 2022 amounted to 5,537 rubles per 1 kg, Rosstat reports.^[1]

2019: Imports cut to 180.7 tonnes

In 2015, red caviar supplies to the Russian Federation amounted to 492.6 tons, in 2016 they decreased to 326.0 tons, in 2017 - to 292.1 tons, in 2019 - 180.7 tons. The exception in this trend to reduce imports was only 2018 year, when the import of caviar in the Russian Federation was 1,034,2 tons.

The import of red caviar into the Russian Federation since the introduction in August 2014 of a ban on the import of caviar from a number of countries (primarily the EU, USA, Canada) is carried out only from Belarus (61.9% of supplies) and Armenia (38.1% of supplies). In insignificant volumes in 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, caviar also came from Japan.

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