Negotiations on fish factory
Today, a meeting was held at the Idea Technopark on implementing the construction project of a salmon fish factory. The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Director General of Idea Technopark Oleg Ibragimov and representatives of Norwegian delegation: Trade Counsellor at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Moscow and Innovation Norway's Country Director for Russia Frode Mo, Marine Director at the University of Bergen Amund Maage, Head of Innovation Norway Foundation Hans Nugard, and Counsellor for Education, Research, and Technology at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Moscow Radina Trengreid.
The project titled “Organisation of Atlantic Salmon Production in Closed-Circuit Water Supply Installations Rated at 3,000 Tonnes a Year” is designed for an annual capacity of 10,000 tonnes. The project’s total cost is estimated at EUR 85 million.
After the meeting, the Norwegian delegation attended the plenary session of the 16th All-Russian Young Scientist Conference “Food Technology and Biotechnology”.
Within the framework of the Republic’s Council on Reproduction of Aquatic Biological Resources and Aquaculture Development in Tatarstan, it is planned to create a state-of-the-art fish industry with an output of 40,000 tonnes of fish products by 2030. This area will be developed through creating the Aquaculture Technopark.
Based on information by Idea Technopark Press Service