Russia to cancel quote for Japan’s fishing near Kuril Islands

Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev has said that Russia will deprive Japan of the right to fish in the Kuril Islands, as the Japanese side has not paid the corresponding quota.

“We have already limited [fish export], and we have limited it by Japan’s efforts as it refused to pay quotas for fishing near the Kuril Islands. Accordingly, this right will be withdrawn. Therefore, Japan punishes itself, there is no need to make any efforts,” Trutnev told reporters, according to TASS.