Fish farm launched in Yaroslavl region in Russia

The largest and most modern farm in Russia for growing marbled catfish and trout began to operate in the Yaroslavl region, OTR reports. The enterprise is fully automated: from distributing food to fish to catching them. Modern equipment allows you to purify water from bacteria with ozone and ultraviolet light. It is planned to produce up to seven thousand tons of products per year. Anatoly Poznyakov, chief fish breeder of the farm: “It takes 8 months for catfish to reach marketable mass. This is the fastest growing fish, it is a predator, as they say. At the moment, more than 30,000 juveniles have been introduced here, the second batch will also be 30-40 thousand, and we are planning to get our third batch of broodstock, which we are forming.” Mikhail Evraev, Governor of the Yaroslavl Region: “The total amount of funding, as I ...