POLAND
Polish inland fisheries
Economic importance to rural areas The inland fisheries sector in Poland comprises the rearing and culture of freshwater fish, commercial lake and river fisheries, and recreational angling in inland waters. Commercial lake, river, and dam reservoir fisheries and angling made the largest contribution to the production of freshwater fish until the mid-1980s, when production came to be dominated by fish from aquaculture.
Local fishermen pull up their catches in the Vistula Lagoon.
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oland has approximately 550,000 ha of inland waters, and inland fishing accounts for ca. 30 of Poland’s total annual production or about 54,000 tonnes. Today, ca. 67 of inland fishery production comes from aquaculture, 26 comes from angling, and only ca. 6 comes from commercial lake, river, and dam reservoir fisheries. 26
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The Stanisław Sakowicz Inland Fisheries Institute dating back to 1951 is the leading independent research and development facility in this field. It is supervised by the subdivision of inland fisheries in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and is led by Director Bogusław Zdanowski, while Professor Arkadiusz Wołos heads the Department of Fishery Bioeconomics. In general, development
at the institute is moving in two directions. The first relates to aquaculture and biotechnology, and the other relates to natural waters and the implementation of the water framework directive. In recent years, the institute has focused on innovation and implementation projects, including: r biotechnologies for the artificial reproduction and rearing of sturgeon species;
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controlled biotechnology for controlled reproduction of pike-perch; increased production of stocking material of valuable fish species, with a special focus on pike; improved quality of the artificial reproduction and rearing of fish, with a special focus on fish welfare; www.eurofishmagazine.com
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