Method of installation into a natural water body of material of stocking of crayfish of the subfamily Astacinae Latreille, 1802, obtained in artificial conditiohs
Results of experimental and analytical researches on restoration of stocks of crayfish of subfamily Astacinae Latreille, 1802 in water body of the Forest zone of the European part of Russia by introduction of larvae of the early stages received in artificial conditions are presented. Researches were conducted in 1995–2020 under programs of Rosrybhoz, Tver’rybhoz, the Russian Academy of agricultural sciences and the Ministry of the Science and Higher education of the Russian Federation. To restore the stocks of crayfish in the Tver Region, larvae of early age stages obtained under artificial conditions were placed in frame devices installed along the shore of the water body, covered with a fine-mesh netting with a small slit left near their bottom. The differences in the environment in the growing pond (fish farm pond) and in the larval introduction pond (Puiga River) were minimal. In devices filled with aquatic vegetation enriched with food organisms, the larvae had the opportunity to adapt to the new environment, find food organisms, and gradually get out through the slit into the water body. A survey of the results of this method of introducing of stocking material, carried out after 1.5–2 months, made it possible to establish the absence of larvae in the devices, and to find in the river backwater downstream a lot of larvae that grew up to the 6th age stage with a body length of 2 and more centimeters. The number of larvae in the backwater was established by calculation based on the results of an approximate calculation of their number per 165 copies/m² of the river bottom inhabited by crustaceans, the settlement area was 15.8 m². The number of found grown-up larvae allowed us to estimate approximately the survival rate of the universal planting material of cancer at least 36%.