Balaton fish can return to the tables of consumers thanks to the fact that Balatoni Halgazdokászki Nonprofit Zrt. will once again be able to farm in five pond farms on more than a thousand hectares of water from this year, said the president of the republic in the Blue Planet podcast.

Áder János Szári, continuing the conversation he started earlier with the fisheries engineer, the ministerial commissioner responsible for the protection of the Balaton's wildlife, and the CEO of the Balatoni Halgazdokászi Nonprofit Zrt., explained that after a wrong decision twenty years ago, the state now has such a large area that it can make a point to ban fishing in the Balaton to serious debates about The fish farming company is able to breed popular species such as carp, pike, catfish, and perch in the same water quality as Lake Balaton.

Zsolt Szári emphasized that they can easily replace the fish stock of Balaton in the currently available area, and they can enter the market with the surplus. It is a big help in this that the fish from Balaton received the protected geographical indication product certification from the European Union a month ago, he added.

The head of state believes that the goal of making Lake Balaton one of the most popular fishing waters in Europe is on the right track.

Agreeing with this, Zsolt Szári noted that the Balaton's carp stock is now praised worldwide, which is due to the success of the measures taken to protect large fish.

Speaking about his work as a ministerial commissioner, Zsolt Szári said that in a year, questions such as whether it is worth dredging from the bed of Lake Balaton in order to reduce the possibility of algae blooms should be crystallized. The climate is changing, the water catchment of Lake Balaton is very small, very vulnerable, so we have to start thinking about how to solve the water replacement of Lake Balaton in 30-40 years, he said.

János Áder underlined that the folk wisdom that it is better to measure twice than to cut once is also true for this work. Hasty, insufficiently thought-out decisions concerning Lake Balaton - for example, the introduction of busa and eel - had extremely harmful consequences, the President of the Republic noted.

Source: MTI/ News Plus

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