Business trip report, Danube: marking and stocking of the sterlet juveniles (LIFE Living Rivers), Slovakia

On 11 June 2025, a total of 12,100 juvenile sterlet (A. ruthenus) were tagged by the group marking method using ARS bath in the facilities of Rybníkářství Pohořelice plc.

On 12 June 2025, the FFPW USB staff (Bořek Drozd, Miloš Buřič, Jan Kubec, Martin Vlk, Filip Ložek and M. Šindler) together with other partners of the LIFE Living Rivers project (LIFE21-IPE-SK-LIFE Living Rivers/101069837) released the marked juvenile sterlet into the Slovak part of the Danube (Čunovo, Sáp). The whole event was accompanied by great media interest.

Written by: RNDr. Bořek Drozd, Ph.D.