POLAND
Dabie Hatchery produces eyed trout eggs for the domestic market and export
Substantial expansion planned The Polish production of eyed eggs for rainbow trout is set to increase as concerns about biosecurity persuade farmers to establish their own hatcheries.
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ainbow trout is the most widely produced farmed fish in Poland after common carp. The fish is typically grown to a portion size of around 300-400 g, but some farmers also grow it to larger sizes over 1 kg. On-growing the fish in open raceways and, increasingly, in recirculation systems is well established in Poland. Successfully producing these fish calls for the use of high quality disease free eggs and the use of strains that grow rapidly, are disease resistant, and have other desirable traits, such as high stress tolerance. These eggs are often imported from other parts of Europe or the United States, but more and more eggs are being produced and supplied by local companies, either independent hatcheries or by trout farmers looking to backward integrate their operations.
A fine specimen of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis. Brook trout eggs account for a tenth of the production.
Production set to increase significantly by 2018 The Dabie Hatchery near Bytow produces top quality eyed eggs of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), brown trout (Salmo trutta m. fario), sea trout (Salmo trutta m. trutta) and their hybrids, though rainbow trout eggs make up around 90 of the production. The hatchery was established by Krzysztof Grecki and Jacek Juchniewicz in 2003 with the first production of eggs in 2004. Today annual production has reached www.eurofishmagazine.com
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The Dabie Hatchery produces eyed eggs from rainbow trout and brook trout.
Eurofish Magazine 5 / 2016
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