The production of cultivated fish and seafood in the first quarter in Russia increased by 15.6%
Seafood
Russia
Published May 5, 2023
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The production of aquaculture (fish and seafood) in Russia in the first quarter increased by 15.6% compared to the same period a year earlier and amounted to more than 181 thousand tons, the Federal Agency for Fishery said. "According to preliminary data, in the first quarter of 2023, the volume of commercial aquaculture production in Russia increased by 15.6% compared to the same period in 2022 and exceeded 181.4 thousand tons," the report says. The main types of cultivated crops are salmon, carp, valuable seafood (oysters, mussels, scallops and other mollusks and echinoderms), whitefish, sturgeon and other species. Salmon in recent years have come out on top in terms of production and maintain growth dynamics. In the first quarter of 2023, the volume of salmon farming (trout, salmon and others) increased by 28% and reached 70.1 thousand tons. The production of valuable seafood increased by 13.5% to 63.2 thousand tons, whitefish - by 6% to 284 tons.
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The volume of production of cyprinids amounted to 41.2 thousand tons, sturgeon - 2.8 thousand tons, perch - 212 tons. Traditionally, the first positions in the ranking of production volumes are occupied by the North-Western and Far Eastern Federal Districts, where in the first quarter of ...
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