Russia: Fish-breeding plants of the Federal Agency for Fishery exceed the plans for the reproduction of omul and sturgeon in Baikal

Fish farmers released more than 338 million larvae of the Baikal omul and 866 thousand juveniles of the Siberian sturgeon of the Baikal population into Lake Baikal. The work is carried out in accordance with the state task as part of the implementation of the federal program "Ecology", as well as in order to compensate for the damage caused to aquatic biological resources and their habitat by business entities. Over the past three years, more than 2.13 billion Baikal omul larvae have been released. These figures are more than twice the planned 750 million units provided for by the federal project "Preservation of Lake Baikal". Releases of the Baikal sturgeon over the past 4 years are also higher than the volumes established by the project: 2.77 million juveniles instead of 1.5 million specimens. In 2022, a record figure over the past 5 years was released - more than 1 billion sturgeon juveniles. According to the results of the autumn spawning campaign in 2022, at the ...