ABOUT US

     The Fish Culture Research and Development Station Nucet was come into being in 1941 year at the initiative of Grigore Antipa. In more then 60 years of existence, Nucet Center had an essential contribution to development of fish culture from Romania. About all had been concrete and important made in Romanian fish culture (aclimatization of new species, original technologies for artificial reproduction (with licenses), policulture rearing technologies, making of industrial races and metises of carp genetic manipulations),  had been made inside of Nucet Center.

     One of the most important achievements of post 1990 phase is the foundation and development of fresh-water fish species and races collection, which actually adds in close to 30 genetic entities, represented by close to 90 batches of different ages, being distantly the most important from country and even from Europe.

     As from 1992, the principal attention, of ample freshness and economically importance for Romanian economy, became the acclimatization of North-American sturgeon, Polyodon spathula, originary from hydrographic basin of Mississippi River. It’s a fresh water sturgeon with a big size (as 2 m length and 70 kg weight), fast growing, and the most important angle for technological and economic part, is not a forage consumer.

     In 2002 have been achieved the first artificial reproduction experiments with affirmative results, which represent a big achievement for fish culture research from Romania, the biological material achieved to be populate these year, prevail almost 20 fish farms from Alba, Arad, Calarasi, Arges, Iasi, Vaslui, Constanta, Dolj and Tulcea counties. By results of the research made on 10 years and by number of exemplars from this species that is detain, S.C.D.P. Nucet come into third place in the world after U.S.A. and China and is on first place from Europe.

The Station provides technical assistance for aquaculture, controlled and artificial reproduction of fish, efficient aquaculture exploitation of dams, and ecological rehabilitation of aquatic ecosystems. Station’s specialists can provide assistance and quickly interventions for aquaculture farms and also can make feasibility studies for setting up or rearrangement of aquaculture exploitations.

Endowment and Personnel

     The Station has 110 ha of ponds from which about 70 ha represent the main experimental base, situated around the premises. The other 40 ha represent 2 nursery farms for rearing of fingerlings, situated at 5 – 8 km distance from the premises. The Station possess 3 stations for artificial reproduction with an production capacity of 200 millions fry/year, tanks for conditioning of breeders and a circulated tank for artificial controlled reproduction of Chinese fish. Endowment also includes technological aids necessary for any modern aquaculture farm: vehicles, boats, fishing nets, mill. The complex works of research and small-scale production are logistically support by two workshops and a thermo station.

     The Station have 70 employees from which 15 are scientific researchers and work in four research collectives, fish genetics and improvement, aquatic ecology, reproduction physiology and ihtiopathology and aquaculture technologies. The research collectives use hydrochemistry and biochemistry, genetics and improvement, hydrobiology, physiology and ihtiopathology laboratories. The experimental work proceeds in all 5 experimental bases (ponds) and the 3 stations for artificial reproduction.

     The Station’s bookcase involve about 10000 textbooks and about 20000 deker periodics, being specialized on fish biology and aquaculture. More then 100 periodical publications are received every year on the basis of subscribe, in exchange or as donations.

Genetic entities own by Fish Culture Research and

Development Station Nucet