Russia: In the Kaliningrad region, the release of juvenile whitefish and eels into the bays has been doubled in 2023

Fish farms in the Kaliningrad region in 2023 increased the number of juvenile whitefish (commercial fish of the salmon family) by more than 2.3 times and the number of juvenile European eels released into the Kaliningrad and Curonian Lagoons for population reproduction by almost 2.7 times, compared with 2022 The press service of the regional government reported this to TASS. “In total, in 2023, 2.852 million pieces of juvenile whitefish were released into the Curonian Lagoon and 1.163 million pieces of juvenile eel were released into the Kaliningrad (Vistula) Lagoon,” the press service reported. In 2022, 1.239 million and 430 thousand juvenile whitefish and eels were released into the bays, respectively. There has been no restoration of the eel population in the region since 2002. In 2022, the Goodfish company took on this work for the first time. The first batch of glassy fish larvae, which were released into the bays after growing at the enterprise, was brought to the region ...