Annual aquaculture production – the artificial breeding of fish and other aquatic biological resources – increased by nearly 22% to 18,621 tons in 2024.
This was reported by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Vitalii Koval.
This is the highest figure since 2019 (18,603 tons). The leading regions in production are Cherkasy (4,400 tons), Lviv (1,543 tons), Khmelnytskyi (1,517 tons), Kirovohrad (1,456 tons), and Sumy (1,403 tons) regions.
The main fish species produced are:
- Carp (8,896 tons)
- Silver carp (4,434 tons)
- Grass carp (637 tons)
- Zander (1,854 tons)
- Salmonids (396 tons)
- Catfish (273 tons)
- Pike (211 tons)
- Sturgeon (72 tons).
Food caviar production reached 4.2 tons.
"Aquaculture is an important part of food security. Its development is another step within the Ministry of Agrarian Policy's policy of import substitution. Our goal is to ensure that products purchased by government institutions in Ukraine are produced domestically," Minister Koval commented.
He added that aquaculture today provides over 50% of global fish production.
