Among the participants are more than 50 of the best journalists and bloggers from various regions of the Far East, experts from government, public, environmental, scientific, journalistic organizations and businesses that support social projects.
On July 13, employees of the Innovative Research and Production Center for Mariculture of the Pacific Branch of VNIRO (TINRO) on Popov Island conducted an introductory visit of journalists and volunteers of the FESCO Transport Group to the Center, as part of an educational program for participants in the Marine Festival as a separate event of the School of Environmental Journalism “Living Taiga”.
Marine festival under the motto “The sea is alive. Let's take care of him! " took place at two sites - on the shore of the Stark Strait and at the Center for Environmental Education of the Far Eastern Marine Reserve (FSBI "Land of the Leopard"). Participants in the educational youth event were journalists - winners and laureates of the XVIII Far Eastern environmental journalism competition "Living Taiga" from eight territories and regions of the Far Eastern Federal District, FESCO volunteers, the Marine Patrol team of local school No. 29, tourists and residents of Popov Island. In total, about 200 people were involved in the festival events.
The educational program of the School “Living Taiga” included a study visit to the TINRO Innovative Research and Production Center for Mariculture on the island. Popova (INPC). Here, Ph.D., Igor Sukhin, head of the department for planning, organizing and coordinating research in the field of aquaculture, together with his colleagues demonstrated to journalists how scientists are growing aquatic organisms such as oysters, sea cucumbers, sea scallops, and brown algae.
One of the main areas of work of the INPC is the development of new biotechnologies for the reproduction of valuable commercial aquatic organisms and the provision of advisory assistance to mariculture farms.
Visitors learned that preserving and increasing life is a complex process, requiring special knowledge and skills, maximum involvement in maintaining multifactorial conditions that are necessary to maintain the life of marine organisms. For example, wards (larvae of sea cucumbers and oysters) need to be regularly fed 3 times a day with nutritious microalgae (Dunaliellasalina and Chaetocerosmuelleri), which are also cultivated at the TINRO Mariculture Center.
TINRO scientists have developed Technical Guidelines for obtaining juvenile scallops and Far Eastern sea cucumbers for model nurseries with a capacity of 1 million specimens. in year.
There is also a Technical Guide for obtaining juvenile Pacific oysters for a model hatchery with a capacity of 1 million specimens. in year. Currently, technology is being developed for the industrial rearing of hatchery juvenile oysters before the stage of transplantation into sea cages. Repeated successful experiments have been carried out on transporting juvenile Far Eastern oysters for cultivation in the Black Sea.
Participants of the Living Taiga School of Environmental Journalism decided to repeat this event next year.
VNIRO press service