Within the framework of the Scientific and Technical Program “Development and Implementation of Innovative Technologies and New Aquaculture Objects that are Economically Efficient under the Natural and Climatic Conditions of Various Regions of Kazakhstan,” the second year of research under the project “Testing and Implementation of Effective Biotechnical Methods for Rearing Promising Aquaculture Species in Fish Farms of Kazakhstan with Their Genetic Identification Using DNA Markers” is nearing completion at the base fish farm LLP “Kapshagai NVH-1973.”

As a result of the research work, domestication of tench (Tinca tinca) caught from a natural population (Lake Kyrykkurdyk) to artificial rearing conditions was carried out. Biotechnical methods for growing commercial tench and the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii under industrial conditions were developed, and the genetic identification of tench using DNA markers was performed. Upon completion of the work, the research objects — tench and Macrobrachium rosenbergii — were transported to the Balkhash branch of LLP “Fisheries Research and Production Center.”

From October 16 to 18, a control harvest of the RAS (recirculating aquaculture system) is being conducted at the fish-farming site of the Balkhash Branch of LLP “FRPC,” along with grading (bonitation) of tench and Macrobrachium rosenbergii transferred for wintering from LLP “Kapshagai NVH-1973.”

The work involves the program supervisor, Deputy Head of the Science Department, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor S.Zh. Asylbekova; Acting Head of the Complex Fisheries Laboratory F.A. Altayeva; Head of the Expeditionary Unit D.O. Tagayev; A.T. Satbek; and Senior Laboratory Assistant Z.S. Seitpatkalov.