Chechen Republic: Itum-Kalinsky fishery in Russia for the first time produced 300 kilograms of black caviar

As director of the fish farm Roman Chekhov told reporters, 12 species of sturgeon are grown here - from Siberian to the very rare golden sturgeon. Each individual is microchipped. Usually the first "milking", that is, the decantation of eggs in females, occurs when the fish reaches puberty - at seven years. More than 20 thousand individuals have been brought into the pools, two thousand of which are already able to participate in commercial reproduction. On the territory of the fish farm there are 46 pools, an oxygen station, a pre-spawn fish keeping department, an own laboratory, and living quarters for employees. Water in the pools comes from the mountain river Khacharoy-Akhk by gravity and, after cleaning, again falls into the channel. By the spring of ...