Aquaculture is a driver of the development of the fisheries industry and one of the priority areas of activity of scientists of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography.
The network of fish-breeding facilities in many regions of Russia is rapidly expanding. For example, in Primorye, more than 300 marine fish breeding sites have been created for the artificial cultivation of various fish species and other aquatic biological resources, however, only a few of them successfully pass state environmental expertise.
Thus, thanks to the competent scientific approach and professionalism of scientists of the Pacific branch of VNIRO, 4 fish breeding sites used by TINRO received permission to carry out commercial fish farming.
The plots are located in the Primorsky Territory - together with two other accredited fish breeding sites of the branch, they form an effective production base for the development of innovative research in the field of mariculture.
At the new sites, scientists and specialists of the Pacific branch of VNIRO plan to grow such valuable species as seaside scallop, Far Eastern trepang, Japanese kelp (saccharine).
During the development of the research program, scientists conducted a complex of long-term monitoring observations: they studied the condition of the bottom biotopes of these water areas, the features of natural settlements of hydrobionts, the conditions of their reproduction.
The systematic analysis of important environmental factors and environmental parameters carried out by scientists provided a positive decision of the state environmental expertise.
VNIRO Press Service
