More than 64,000 sterlet fry released into the Gorky reservoir of the Yaroslavl region

The Department of APKiPR, together with representatives of the Moscow Regional Technical University and the Upper Volga branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Glavrybvod, carried out fishery activities in the village of Chernaya Zavod, Nekrasovsky District, to reproduce the population of aquatic biological resources in the reservoirs of the Yaroslavl region.
“Today, within the framework of the state order, more than 64 thousand sterlet fry with a total weight of 3.6 grams were released into the Gorky reservoir. The age of individuals is approximately 2 months. The diet of fish now consists of dry food, in the future they will eat mollusks and insect larvae, - said Oleg Kokorin, HEAD of the Yaroslavl regional department of the Upper Volga branch of the federal state budgetary institution Glavrybvod. “As part of compensatory measures, in August-September we plan to release about 1 million carp fry into water bodies.”
As Andrei Yakovlev, head of the Moscow-Oka Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, noted at the recent interregional forum on the development of the fishery complex, sterlet is one of the valuable fish species in the water bodies of the Yaroslavl region. Even at the beginning of the 20th century, sterlet was a commercial fish in the reservoirs of the region. To date, sturgeon species of fish are in particular need of protection and restoration of stocks.
“Together with representatives of MOKTU, we control the release of aquatic biological resources into the water bodies of the Yaroslavl region. The sterlet is listed in the Red Book of the Yaroslavl Region, therefore, the artificial reproduction of this type of fish makes it possible to maintain and increase its numbers in the water bodies of the region,” emphasized the head of the department for state control, supervision and protection of aquatic biological resources in the Yaroslavl and Vologda (Cherepovets district) regions of the Moscow- Oksky Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Fisheries Alexander Pribylov.