On ways of increasing productivity of the coastal waters of the Azov Sea
The authors consider the establishment of commodity sturgeon farming in the coastal zone of the Azov Sea as a way for increase of the waters productivity. The main purpose of the project is to supply the market with commodity fish and roe all-the-year-round, as well as to form a breeding stock to guarantee the stable sturgeon reproduction. For the task, it is very important that the fish raised by that way would be identical by their biological characteristics to those from natural populations and would be able to reproduce both on natural spawning grounds and in sturgeon plants. Among other tasks is the stocking of the sea by viable young fish. The authors propose a method for growing farmed young sturgeons in sea cages in the coastal zone of Taganrog Bay with desalinated water and a lot of forage organisms. The mass of released fry is to be higher that artificially grown ones because the larger are releasing fish, the higher is commercial return.