Fish Industry Institute offers consumers services for the use of industry technological regulations for the cultivation of whitefish broodstock in industrial conditions under an outsourcing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

The technological regulations include a description of technological processes and fish-breeding and biological standards for growing whitefish broodstock in industrial complexes in the conditions of Belarus. The proposed industry technological regulations have been developed in accordance with the order of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus dated March 26, 2015, No. 94, agreement No. 9/2014-31-254 dated June 23, 2014.

Whitefish (whitefish, peled, muksun, broad whitefish and their hybrids) are among the most promising objects of the world's freshwater cold-water aquaculture. This is explained by both the high quality of the resulting products (comparable in cost to salmon), and the limited access to their natural resources (the bulk of the species live and are caught in Northern Asia from the Trans-Urals to the Kolyma River basin). Interest in whitefish farming is growing with the accumulation of experience in their fish farming development, as well as with the development of technical support for aquaculture, primarily industrial. Whitefish farming has been most developed in the Russian Federation and Finland, which is justified by the presence of their own broodstocks and the creation of fish farms in regions with appropriate temperature conditions (I fish farming zone). Work on the development of commercial whitefish farming is also underway in Poland, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic. In Russia, whitefish reproduction has a fairly long history and over the past period, extensive experience has been accumulated in farming various representatives of this family. The experience of pond and lake whitefish farming in Belarus over the previous period (1970-80s) showed the possibility of commercial production of these species in the conditions of fish farming zone II (with a fish productivity of 90-240 kg/ha), but its volumes are very limited and subject to risks due to weather conditions. The existing capacities of pond fish farms in the republic are practically unsuitable for whitefish, since they are intended for growing carp and species similar to it in terms of maintenance conditions. They are limited by the design capacity and the possibility of intensification to a certain level, after which the increase in production costs will not be offset by the increase in production. The construction of new specialized pond farms is not expected.

In this case, consumers of planting material and producers of commercial whitefish products will be agricultural enterprises, tenants and users of water areas, including fish farms and farms, as well as national parks.

More information about the technological regulations can be found on the website of the Fish Industry Institute here. (in Russian)

Tariffs for research, scientific, technical and analytical work (services) can be found here. (in Russian)

In Belarus, it is planned to increase the production volumes of new valuable fish species (including salmon-like) to 3.8 thousand tons per year. The set tasks can be fulfilled provided that new production capacities are created based on the principles of cold-water industrial fish farming, which are fundamentally different from traditional pond ones due to the introduction of new fish farming technologies.

The creation of cold-water basin farms allows for the cultivation of viable planting material of whitefish under conditions of complete control, regardless of environmental conditions and the state of the food supply, as well as the formation and maintenance of broodstock.

Certified methods. Highly qualified personnel.

Industry technological regulations for growing whitefish broodstock in industrial conditions approved by the Academic Council of the RUE "Fish Industry Institute", protocol No. 7 dated 1311. 2015. Agreed upon by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus on 24.11. 2015, approved by the Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus on 9.12.2015.

Developers: Head of the Laboratory, PhD in Biology Kostousov V.G.; Senior Researcher Prishchepov G.P.; Researchers Popinachenko T.I., Baran T.L., Fish Farmer-Technologist of the Industrial Fish Farming Complex of the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy Rogovtsev S.V.

The Fish Industry Institute is a leading research center that heads and coordinates research work on fish farming in the republic. The activities of the institute's scientists in the field of pond fish farming are aimed at stimulating the development of the natural food base, maximum use of production capabilities by feeding fish with concentrated compound feed, transition to polyculture and optimization of its composition by growing highly productive fish species.

The main tasks and areas of scientific and technical activities of the organization are:
- Pond and industrial fish farming
- Improving fish farming technologies
- Developing fish feed
- Prevention and treatment of fish diseases
- Expanding the range of farmed fish species
- Selection and breeding work
- Optimization of fisheries management modes of lakes, rivers and reservoirs
- Training of highly qualified scientific personnel
- Gene pool farming for fish breeding.

The Institute's long-term work on creating pure lines of locally bred carp resulted in the formation of three breeds of Belarusian carp, which made it possible to move from growing low-yielding mongrel carp to cultivating heterozygous lines of the first generation with high fish-breeding and consumer qualities in accordance with the developed scheme of industrial hybridization.

The intensive technology of growing fish seed material developed at the Institute allows for obtaining up to 20 c/ha of yearlings in rearing ponds and solves the problem of fish seed material shortage, expands the range of fish products by including new promising fish farming objects in polyculture.

The creation of new chemical and biological medicinal products for the prevention and treatment of fish diseases allows fish farms to refuse the use of a number of expensive and environmentally unsafe antibiotics, and eliminate mass fish waste in conditions of intensive fish farming.

Safe methods of fertilizing ponds with food industry waste have been developed, which contribute to increasing fish productivity and significantly reducing the cost of expensive concentrated feed when growing planting material.

Compound feeds for different types of fish created on the basis of local raw materials help reduce the cost of farmed fish and increase competitiveness.

The biotechnology of pond fish cultivation in polyculture, artificial reproduction of juvenile carp and herbivorous fish, commercial fish farming in lakes, selective breeding work with carp and many others developed by the Institute have allowed all fish farms in the republic to make the transition to intensive technologies.

The Institute is a full member and one of the founders of the Association "Network of Aquaculture Research Centers in Central and Eastern Europe" (NACCE).

Agreements on scientific and technical cooperation in the field of fisheries and water resources study have been concluded and are in effect with specialized research institutions of Russia (All-Russian Research Institute of Freshwater Fisheries, N.M. Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, State Research Institute of Lake and River Fisheries, Kaliningrad State Technical University), Ukraine (Fisheries Institute of the Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, Kherson State Agrarian University), Lithuania (Fisheries Service under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania), Poland (Stanislav Sakovich Institute of Freshwater Fish Farming), China (the Fishery Company of Da Qing Lian Huan Hu Lake), Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Su Qian Institute of Academy of Agricultural Sciences from Jiang Su Province of China).

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