Russian oysters began to be grown in Crimea

Specialists from the Federal Research Center of the Institute of Biology of the South Seas named after. A.O. Kovalevsky RAS in an experimental nursery created a technology for a full cycle of growing oysters. Scientists not only reproduced the offspring of ocean mollusks off the coast of the peninsula, but carried out selection work that will make the Black Sea native to this species. Hydrobiologists worked under the auspices of the scientific and educational center "MoreAgroBioTech", formed within the framework of the national project "Science and Universities". The first oyster farm on the peninsula appeared 13 years ago, and today there are already more than ten. But until recently, the fry of this marine inhabitant - spat - were brought to Crimea from Europe. However, in today's political instability this has become impossible. Then the spat of bivalve shells began to be brought to the Black Sea from the Far East. The problem of adaptation of the giant Far Eastern oyster ...