News - AQUACULTURE / FISH FARMING

Russia’s Federal Agency for Fishery (FAF) has put up for electronic auctions five large areas for marine culture off the coast of Primorsky Krai province (Capital Vladivostok), reports Megafishnet.com.

The Russian Aquaculture Company (RA), the largest salmon producer operating in the country’s North, is working on possible Atlantic salmon farming in Primorye province (capital Vladivostok) with the final decision to be made later this summer. Another possibility on the agenda has to do with marine culture of scallops and sea cucumbers (the latter known as trepan in the region), reports Megafishnet.com.

Russian Aquaculture PJSC (the “Company”), a major Russian salmon aquaculture company, announces its IFRS financial results for the full year 2020.

The Russian marine culture made a big leap in 2020, reports Megafishnet.com.

Astrakhan scientists developed new compound aquafeeds containing a natural attractant - glasswort (Salicornia genus) that grows in the region, reports Megafishnet.com.

The harvest volume and sales of Russian Aquaculture (Russia’s leading Atlantic salmon farmer) displayed a considerable decrease year-on-year in 2020. This was mainly caused by the shift of the fish slaughtering to 2021 because of the slower growth to marketable weight in the abnormally low water temperatures in the first half of 2020, reports Megafishnet.com...

Russian Salmon LLC, the country’s second largest salmon farmer is back on the market after the big loss of fish due to disease in 2015, reports Megafishnet.com.

According to a report by the Russian fishery head Ilya Shestakov, the nation’s aquaculture has made another big leap to meet the targets set for the sector in the Fishery Complex Development Strategy 2030, reports Megafishnet.com.

The smolt plant to be constructed by the Russian Sea-Aquaculture company has been put on the list of the Arctic Zone’s investment projects entitled to government support, reports Megafishnet.com.

The construction of a selection and breeding center in Karelia (province in Russia’s Northwest) has passed the building site’s preparation phase and it is now set for completion in 2021, reports Megafishnet.com.

Almost 50 thousand tons of aquaculture products are grown in «sea gardens» in Primorye. State support allows enterprises to modernize equipment and increase production capacity, reports Megafishnet.com.

Russia’s first and largest producer of white-legged shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Ellas plans to begin deliveries to Europe and Asia in 2021 as well as to supply stocking material to other regions of the country, reports Megafishnet.com.

Rosimushchestvo, within the framework of the privatization of state property, sold 100% of the shares of the Adler pedigree trout farm. The transaction amount exceeded RUB 539 million with a starting price of 513.4 million rubles. Only two bids were submitted for the auction, with Yug-Businesspartner becoming the winner, reports Megafishnet.com.

Australian red claw crayfish is being prepared for commercial Recirculating Aquaculture Systems aquaculture at Southern Russian areas, reports Megafishnet.com.

The Ministry of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic has submitted for discussion a draft government decree that would extend the successful experience of the Russian Far East in the formation and distribution of aquaculture sites to the North Fisheries Basin, reports Megafishnet.com.

In 2020 Russian fish farmers have been able to get relief under the extra protection through subsidized insurance extended to aquaculture as of 1st January 2019, reports Megafishnet.com.

In the first nine months of 2020 Russian salmon and trout farms considerably increased production volumes year-on-year, reports Megafishnet.com.

Marine culture in the Russian Far East has been surging in the last few years still tapping only a fraction of the potential of millions of metric tons in the region, reports Megafishnet.com.

Oyster production in the Krasnodar Territory near Sochi where the Olympic Winter Games 2014 has tripled during the last five years. Now the local farmers harvest ca. 190 metric tons of Black Sea oysters per year.

According to preliminary data, in January-March 2020, Russia produced more than 112.8 thousand metric tons of farmed fish, by 37.5% up on Q1 2019.

Construction is currently underway at Samherji's land-based fish farming site in Grindavík. Three new sea holes have been drilled in the lava at the site.

The challenge to produce anguillid glass eels for large-scale aquaculture endures in Japan

The aquafeed producer BioMar states that the measures taken across Europe to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 have had no negative consequences on feed production and deliveries from their production facilities in Greece, Spain, France, Denmark (and Turkey).

According to preliminary data from Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries for 2019, the aquaculture production of salmon species in the Russian Federation has more than doubled compared to the indicators of 2015 (44.9 thousand tons), amounting to 90.8 thousand tonnes.

Kyrgyzstan-based trout farm growing fish of up to 10 kilos has been continuously developing its product range and is now going to diversify into trout canning.

Since 2014 Russian production of mussels and oysters has risen more than 17-fold to 1700 metric tons.

Azov-Don Sturgeon Company Ltd from Bataysk, Rostov region, Russia will invest about 200 million rubles (3.1 million USD) into construction of a sturgeon farm in the Azov region and in raising mussels and oysters in the Crimea.

Akvatrade company will build a salmon farming combine in the Lodeinopolsky district of Leningrad region surrounding Saint Petersburg to produce 2 thousand metric tons of salmon per year. Investments into the project are estimated at 500 million rubles (7.8 mln USD, 6.9 mln Euro).

Russian scientists from the South Research Centre of the nation’s Academy of Science have worked out special physiologic tests for precise defining sturgeon maturity and readiness for spawning. The technology is being patented by the scientists.

A large oyster and mussel farm will be built near Yevpatoriya (Western Crimea). The project is backed by investments from Rostov-based Azovo-Donskaya Osetrovaya Kompania (AZDOK), reports www.megafishnet.com.