Russia increases oyster production. Russian aqua farms have increased oyster production by more than a third over the two years of the pandemic. Growth was provided in the Primorye region
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(Russian Far East), but in the Crimea and Kuban, production has dropped sharply due to abnormal heat and floods causing mortalities. Over the two years of the pandemic, the production of mussels and oysters on Russian farms has increased by a total of 57.8% – from 5.2 thousand tons in 2019 to 8.3 thousand tons in 2021, follows from the statistics provided by RBC Rosrybolovstvo. Separately, by category: the production of live oysters during this time increased by 38.7%, to 4.6 thousand tons, and live mussels – by 89.7%, to 3.7 thousand tons. The growth of mariculture production has been observed in Russia for more than five years, a representative of the Federal Agency for Fisheries points out. The policy of import substitution and the improvement of the regulatory framework in the field of aquaculture allowed Russian aquaculture to increase the production of mussels and oysters, the department explains. Until 2014, oysters and mussels were mainly imported to Russia from Europe, ...
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