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The first plant for cultivation of sturgeon in the Chelyabinsk Region will reach a design capacity of 250 tons of finished products in 2019. The director of the first plant for cultivation of sturgeon in the Chelyabinsk Region, in recirculating water supply system of the LLC “Bionica”, Salim Sharipov, said that the company will release a test batch of products at the end of 2017, and the first commercial batch of products already in 2018.

“We are creating the first plant for cultivation of sturgeon in the Chelyabinsk region, in recirculating water supply system. Enterprise capacity will be 250 tons of finished products (of sturgeon) per year. The first commercial batch of product will be released on January 1, 2018”, – a spokesman said.

Aleksei Ekimov, the head of fish farming and fishing of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Chelyabinsk region, said that the plant's products will be in demand in the market of Chelyabinsk region and other regions of the country, says TASS.

“There is no deficit of sturgeon, but the fish will find its buyer”, – stated Ekimov. Moreover, the official said, that the plant will be using pure artesian water, therefore there will be no need to use lakes, the enterprise will not be affected by weather conditions, this way the risk of fish contracting parasitic infections is significantly lower.

Now the construction of the plant is at the stage of design and survey works. Creation of the enterprise will cost 700 million rubles, the question if it will be own funds or borrowed, is not yet resolved. For the project implementation a trilateral agreement was signed between the LLC “Bionica”, the federal state budget institution of science – Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Rostov-on-Don) and Astrakhan State Technical University (Astrakhan).

According to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Chelyabinsk region, fish farms of the region are planning to produce 4700 tons of fish in 2016 (peled, сoregonus, ripus, carp, burbot and etc.). In 2015, 4550 tons were produced, in 2014 - 4400 tons.