Russia: More than 400,000 salmon fry will be released into water bodies of North Ossetia by the end of the year

More than 400,000 salmon fry will be released into the waters of North Ossetia by the end of the year. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the Federal Agency for Fisheries. “Since the beginning of the year, specialists from the North Caucasian branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Glavrybvod (subordinate to the Federal Agency for Fishery) have released hundreds of thousands of salmon fry into the waters of the Republic of North Ossetia. In total, by the end of the year, as part of the state assignment, the branch will release more than 400 thousand specimens of juveniles of this valuable fish,” — the message says. Caspian salmon is a particularly valuable species of fish, which is listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation. At the Ardon Salmon Fish Hatchery in North Ossetia, 280,000 fry are grown annually in accordance with the state order. This year, the plant released more than 180,000 fry into the Terek River behind the ...