Russia sees across-the-board growth in high-value processed seafood output including pollock fillets in first nine months, fishmeal and fish oil products up 12%

The Russian Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) released data on November 6 showing that in the first nine months of 2026, Russian companies expanded output of certain high-value processed seafood products.

Among these, frozen fish fillet output rose 9% year-on-year to 212,000 tonnes. Rosrybolovstvo said this growth has been maintained for a second consecutive year. In 2025, frozen fish fillet output grew 10% to a total of 258,000 tonnes.

Over the same period, output of fishmeal and pellets made from aquatic biological resources rose 12% to 151,000 tonnes. Output of frozen and cooked crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic invertebrates rose 11% to 168,000 tonnes. Rosrybolovstvo noted that such products are used in feed production.

According to data from the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Росстат), from January to August 2026, under the activity types "fishing and aquaculture" and "processing and canning of fish, crustaceans and molluscs," the turnover of relevant institutions was 866 billion rubles, 16% higher than the level of the same period last year.

Ilya Shestakov, head of the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency, previously said that the domestic market and its supply remain the industry's priority, and that the development of the processing industry has allowed Russia's seafood product range to expand. In an interview with the "Russia 24" television channel, he said: "New processing capacity makes it possible to produce products that were hardly produced in the past: fishmeal, fish oil, surimi and minced fish. These products are supplied to both the domestic market and export markets."

According to the General Administration of Customs' import and export statistics for December 2025, that month's exports of Russian pollock (under the HS codes 03036700 frozen pollock, 03047500 frozen pollock fillets, and 03049400 frozen pollock meat) amounted to 161.772 tonnes, with an export value of USD 407,031.0 and an average export price of USD 2,516.08 per tonne. This tariff code scope remained stable throughout the entire period from 2015 to 2026, with no generational changes.