Opening ceremony of the Hakari Fish Farm in the Lachin district

On August 25, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attended the opening ceremony of the Hakari Fish Farm in the Lachin district.

This enterprise, the first sturgeon breeding farm in the Karabakh zone, will produce 35 tons of Kura (Persian) sturgeon, 1.5 tons of sterlet, and 5 tons of trout annually. To achieve this, the facility has created 36 open-type concrete channels, each 40 meters long and 3 meters wide. There are plans to expand the farm’s operations in the future. The production targets include increasing sturgeon meat production to 70 tons per year, caviar to 3 tons, and trout meat to 10 tons.