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of the ponds. The main trend has been rise of interest to the production of juveniles of
commercially important native species (salmon, sea trout, brown trout, whitefish (Coregonus),
pike, pike-perch, tench) for stocking into the natural waters. The fish farmers hoped that
government, municipalities, owners of fishing rights and sport fishermen would be interested
in financing the production of stocking material. Demand on the carp fingerlings by the
owners of small water bodies (farm and garden ponds, small lakes etc.) has increased too.
The fish farmers have also tried to adopt several new for Estonia objects of aquaculture
(sturgeons, eel, crayfish, arctic char, grayling). Recently angling in ponds has got a good start
of development.
There were 22 professional fish farms in Estonia in 1998. Among them were 14
rainbow trout farms. These were producing mainly large rainbow trout. Only recently small
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