The Dnieper water gushing into Crimea spurred a boom in fish farming on the peninsula
The Dnieper water, which came to Crimea in the first days of the special operation in Ukraine, is reviving fish farming in the republic.
After the military liquidated the dam, erected by order of official Kyiv for the water blockade of Crimea, it became possible to restore up to 6 thousand hectares of ponds, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Previously, up to 160 million cubic meters of water entering Crimea through the North Crimean Canal was spent on fish farming. With the water blockade, the industry had to be reoriented to other sources that were suitable for cultivating valuable fish species, but mass production had to be reduced.
“It is planned to restore the work of enterprises in the industry, which was stopped in 2014 after the start of the water blockade,” noted the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov. “This will also be facilitated by the activities of a unique fish-breeding enterprise of its kind - the State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Crimean Fish Hatchery”, created back in the days of the USSR.”
The Crimean Fish Hatchery was built in 1987 and remained under republican ownership to maintain the quantitative and species diversity of ichthyofauna in Crimean reservoirs. Despite problems with water supply, the nursery continues to operate, increasing production and stocking volumes - up to 1 million pieces of planting material for aquafarmers. The availability of water and a domestic market expands the production of commercial fish.
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