Fish production

By means of contract rearing, the client can have spawning material from his own waters and thus very specific genetic strains or populations hatched.

Fish production is done as “rearing by charge”: A client delivers the fertilized eggs or the brood fish to the fish farm. Brood fish are kept until maturation, gametes are collected and fish are returned. Fertilized eggs are bred to larvae and reared to the size required and determined by the client. The client pays for the production effort and overtakes the fish at the price initially stated. This “rearing by charge” production enables the stocking of specific water systems with their typical fish strains and genotypes. “Rearing by charge“ is done with a minimal quantity of 2000 eggs and offered for the following species: brown trout and lake trout (Salmo trutta), lake charr (Salvelinus umbla), Danube Salmon (Hucho hucho), coregonids (Coregonus sp.), grayling (Thymallus thymallus), burbot (Lota lota), pike (Esox lucius), barbel (Barbus barbus), nase (Condrostoma nasus), carp (Cyprinus carpio), black sea roach (Rutilus meidingeri), bullhead (Cottus gobio), blageon (Telestes souffia), minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), Danube bleak (Alburnus mento), bream (Abramis brama), and sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus).

For aquaculture we produce species which are difficult to manage for private farmers due to specific feed requirements and/or elaborative rearing conditions. Instead of live feed special, self-formulated larvae starter dry feed is used for on-feeding of many species.
The area of works contributes to supply fish farmers with fingerlings deriving from Austrian production and from local Austrian strains.