Russian fish is still entering EU markets in the run-up to Christmas, with annual imports worth hundreds of millions of euros reaching the bloc, despite its wider sanctions on Moscow, Euractiv reports.

The EU has hit Russia with multiple rounds of economic restrictions since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, but most food trade has been left untouched, with only select fishery items – mainly caviar (and substitutes) and crustaceans – banned, a move that has had limited impact because Russia only shipped small quantities of those products to the bloc.

The supply of other fish products has kept flowing, particularly of cod and…

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