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Russia limits fish imports from Norway

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MOSCOW, December 1 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Federal Agency for Veterinary and Phitosanitary Inspection is introducing temporary restrictions starting December 5 on fish imports from Norway, the agricultural ministry said Thursday. "The monitoring of salmon...bred by the Norwegian companies ST-400, H-107, N-1041 and H-96 revealed lead and cadmium concentrations twice exceeding permissible levels," the ministry said.

The restrictions will be lifted after Russia and Norway hold joint inspections, the ministry said.

Two Russian fishing boats, the Kapitan Gorbachev and the Dmitry Pokramovich, were detained by the Norwegian Coast Guard on October 24 and released October 28 after posting bail. The Norwegian Coast Guard had detained the trawlers near Medvezhy Island in the Barents Sea after the boats entered a 12-mile exclusive fishing zone without permission on October 24.

Norwegian authorities accused the ships' crews of unauthorized fish reloading in Norway's territorial waters. These arrests came in the wake the drama in mid-October involving the Elektron trawler, which the Norwegians pursued across the Barents Sea for five days after accusing the Russian crew of violating Norwegian fishing regulations.

On November 1 The Russian Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against Valery Yarantsev, the captain of the Electron, who is being investigated for illegal fishing and holding two Norwegian inspectors on board his vessel for four days.

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