Following the results of 9 months of 2021, the commercial cultivation of salmon species reached 120 thousand tons – 29% more than the volume for the same period in 2020. At the same time, the share of trout and Atlantic salmon in the overall structure of commercial aquaculture production reached 45%, whereas more than ten years ago it was about 5%, and last year – 30%.

The cultivation of Atlantic salmon grew 2.3 times – to 20.34 thousand tons (8.9 thousand tons – in the 9 months of 2020). The production of various trout species increased by 18% — to 99 thousand tons. The geography of trout farming is very extensive – from the Caspian to the Arctic, from the Northwest to the Russian Far East.

After Russia introduced retaliatory measures to anti-Russian sanctions, about 120 thousand tons of salmon, mainly Norwegian salmon, dropped out of the structure of domestic imports. Already in the three quarters of 2021, Russian salmon farmers reached this figure and provided a good increase to the salmon catch in the Far East, where the third-best result in the history of the Russian fishery was achieved — more than 538 thousand tons.

Salmon farming is the most promising area of aquaculture. The comprehensive project "Salmon Farming", meaning the development of commercial fish farming of salmon species using industrial and pasture aquaculture technologies, is included in the Strategy for the Development of the Fisheries Complex of the Russian Federation until 2030, approved by the Government in 2019.