In Japan, salmon is sold as salted and unsalted. Salted is retailed as bone-in half-steaks used for grilled salmon, a popular breakfast dish. Russian product currently dominates this market, because of last year’s strong harvest.
But Russia has announced a 45 percent reduction to its 2012 salmon harvest, to just 275,000 metric tons. In addition, the Russian government allows Japanese vessels to catch salmon and trout inside Russia’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone around the dispu…
