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Article: Tiny Baltic sprat (fish) cause Latvia-Russia trade row

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February 11, 2007
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Riga (Latvia), Feb 11 -- For a fish that is only 16 cm long, the Baltic sprat has caused more than its fair share of trouble in recent months.

For centuries, this silvery relative of the herring - Latin name "Sprattus sprattus balticus" - has been viewed as a delicacy in the Baltic states. After the Soviet Union invaded the Baltics in 1940, smoked Riga sprats became famous from Vilnius to Vladivostok.

And despite the fact that the Baltics broke away from the moribund USSR in 1991, Riga sprats remained a byword in Russia for quality, delicacy and style.

But in recent months a dispute over health standards, and a resulting ban on sales of canned Latvian fish to Russia, have deeply troubled ...

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