RUSSIAN Fish farms to raise 6.2 bln fry this year

Monday, December 03, 2001
http://www.fis.com/

Russia's fish-raising farms will raise and release more than 6.2 billion fry of different species of commercially valuable fish, head of the main department for protecting and reproducing fish stocks (Glavrybvod) Grigory Kovalev told Interfax.

More than 101 million sturgeon (stellate sturgeon and beluga) will be released into the Caspian and Sea of Azov this year, Kovalev said. The fish farms in the Far East will artificially raise 638 million humpbacked, chum and sockeye salmon fry.

Kovalev went on to announce that the Russian State Fisheries Committee (Goskomrybolovstvo) and Rosrybkhoz (Agriculture Ministry system) this year will release into natural waters and reservoirs 5.5 billion sazan, grass carp, carp and other species of fish.

Goskomrybolovstvo figures show that the Sakhalinrybvod, Amurrybvod, Primorrybvod, Kamchatrybvod and Okhotskrybvod fish farms have exceeded their targets for fish releasing.

The Murmanskrybvod, Sevrybvod and Karelrybvod farms, Kovalev said, are doing effective work in the artificial reproduction of Atlantic salmon and Kamchatka crab in the Northern basin, in particular in the Barents Sea. More than one billion fry of various salmon species have been raised.

By Interfax/FIS Russia

(from Aquaculture Info List, e-mail: dave.conley@sympatico.ca)

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