The First Experience of Industrial Recycling Fish Farm in Russia

摘要

Russia has a centuries-old history of fish-breeding. Ropsha, a village St. Petersburg, is where fish were raised in artificial ponds for the first time. It is from Ropsha where the tsar's court has been supplied with fish since the 18th century. In 1993, the Federal Center for Fish Genetics and Selection was founded in Ropsha. However, fish farms tend to have lower productivity compared to commercial catches. The main aquaculture species in the Soviet Union is common carp and rearing them in ponds was the technology used. In the 1980s, a rapid increase of carp-farming in warm waters of power stations was observed. At the same time, experimental trials raising fish in recycling water systems were performed. In the early nineties fish farming produceddropped sharply. Only carp production in the southern regions of the country remained. Rearing carp in warm water dropped from ten thousand tons to some hundred tons. Studies on recycling water systems were stopped and recycling water systems were destroyed.