DEVELOPMENT OF FRESHWATER AQUACULTURE IN RUSSIA: STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE INDUSTRY

DOI 10.32651/2210-66

Issue № 10, 2022, article № 12, pages 66-70

Section: Agrofood market

Language: Russian

Original language title: РАЗВИТИЕ ПРЕСНОВОДНОЙ АКВАКУЛЬТУРЫ В РОССИИ: СОСТОЯНИЕ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ ОТРАСЛИ

Keywords: AQUACULTURE, RUSSIA, DEVELOPMENT, TRENDS, PRODUCTION, EFFICIENCY, CONDITIONS

Abstract: Freshwater fish are an important food of the population, which determines the need to develop its aquaculture in addition to prey from rivers and lakes. The industry is traditional for Russia. The aim of the study was to identify major aquaculture trends and prospects for industry transformation. Russia has large water resources, some of which are used for fish farming. Russia's share in global aquaculture production is insignificant and amounts to 0.33%. The main trend in the industry can be defined as an accelerating growth in the scale of the production of farmed fish. Freshwater aquaculture provided production of 84.5 thousand tons of fish in 2021, which is 42.0% more than in 2017. It becomes economically attractive, as evidenced by overcoming the deep unprofitability of the industry and reaching a positive profitability of the production of hydrobionts. The forecast for the development of aquaculture in Russia for the period up to 2030 is 600 thousand tons, of which at least 120 thousand tons should be produced by freshwater aquaculture. It is possible to ensure the planned growth in the scale of the industry under the conditions of alleviating systemic problems of its development (providing fish stock, import substitution of feed, increasing the level of material and technical equipment, maintaining a favourable epizootic situation), increasing the opportunities for the implementation of economic interests by agricultural producers, stimulating the development of high-intensity forms of aquaculture.

Authors: Truba Marina Anatolevna