Russia to consider aquaculture part of national agro project

RUSSIA - The Russian government in September will consider the possibility of including aquaculture in the priority national project aimed at the development of the country’s agro-industrial complex.

In the course of visiting the Okhotsk fish farm in the Malkovo settlement on Sakhalin First Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that it is necessary within the framework of the agro project to provide to fishing farms a possibility of receiving credits for their development.

In particular, believes Medvedev, it is possible to consider the issue of subsidising the interest rate of credits provided to fish farms, as well as opening credit lines for the creation of modern fish processing factories and farms for reproduction of some species of fish.

“The fishing industry is a source of employment for the population and the leading branch in many maritime regions of the country, especially in the North and Far East,” the first vice prime minister noted. For certain regions, in particular, Kamchatka, Koryak Autonomous Area and Sakhalin fish breeding is the basis of the economy and is of major importance for settling social problems.

Director General of the SALMO company Valentin Lyubayev showed Medvedev a facility for the reproduction of sturgeon species. The first vice prime minister accompanied by governor of the Sakhalin region Ivan Malakhov presidential plenipotentiary envoy to the Far East federal district Kamil Iskhakov familiarised with the model of breeding of Pacific salmon and sea scallop at the Okhotsk fish farm.

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Source: ITAR TASS

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