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According to scientific data fish farming in Sakhalin makes 30 thousand tons of fish. 500 million of fry having appeared from eggs in fish hatcheries located along the coast line come back. In Soviet times there was only one fish farm in Sakhalin as well as in Kamchatka. And about forty of them were built by Japanese in Southern Sakhalin. Later they turned out to be a basis for fish farming in this region. Concerned with fulfillment of fishery plans big bosses in Moscow did not expect much from those farms but they also could not get rid of them. So they had to support fish farming.

People in Sakhalin consider their rivers as their main treasure and take care of them. With a lot of difficulties they managed to find several individuals of Green sturgeon in the rivers of Primorye. This rare species was completely destroyed in Sakhalin. Those individuals of dying species were brought to Sakhalin and a breeding stock of this fish was created. When problems with Sakhalin taimen appeared due to poaching, scientists from Sakhalin together with their Japanese colleagues started breeding this fish. When situation with Cherry salmon, favorite fish in Sakhalin, turned to worse, Cherry salmon fry appeared in fish hatcheries of Okhotsk.