Atlantic salmon reproduction activities continue on the Neva

 

The young fish, grown in special pools, are delivered to the Neva in tanks with water and oxygen and released into the river through corrugated pipes. And in 3-5 years, the grown-up young fish will return from the Atlantic to the Neva to leave offspring.

 

The Nevsky Fish Hatchery grows juvenile salmon species using Finnish technology, which makes it possible to compensate for the damage to aquatic bioresources caused by the construction of flood protection structures in Leningrad and to preserve a very valuable population of Atlantic salmon, one of the strongest in terms of genetics.

 

The release involved 13 compensating enterprises from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region (including FSUE Rosmorport, JSC Ust-Luga Company, Gazprom SPG Portovoye LLC and others). In total, more than 42 thousand yearlings of salmon were released with an average weight of 16.2 and 21.9 grams for different batches of fry.

 

A specialist from the fish diseases sector of the aquaculture laboratory of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) Yuri Shepelev was part of the working commission for monitoring the implementation of the measures.

 

VNIRO Press Service