About us

The story of DTD Ribarstvo begins in 1954 with the incorporation of the company “Šaran” in Petrovaradin (meaning “Carp” in English), specialized in farming and sales of carp and associated freshwater species. By the late 1960s, several other similar companies were fused into “Šaran”, before “Šaran” itself was merged with the other five largest aquaculture producers in former Yugoslavia. Together, they continued their business activities under the name “Yugoslav Freshwater Aquaculture Union” with a head office in Belgrade. A subsequent ownership transformation of this organisation in 1978 resulted in the re-emergence of “Šaran” as an independent company, which then fused with the Fisheries Institute (specialising in training of technologists in fish farming), in order to produce DTD Ribarstvo, as the company is known today.

In 1998, DTD Ribarstvo modified its ownership structure in compliance with the new Enterprise Law and continued as a company in joint state and private ownership. In 2006, the company was fully privatised and came into ownership of the current shareholders.

Since then, DTD Ribarstvo has become the leading fish distributor in Serbia, through increasing its product range, expanding its sales network and entering new market segments. The company is focused on obtaining top-quality products through introduction of modern methods and technologies, and tight control of its raw materials and final products. Currently, the company is organised in 4 profit units.

Aquaculture, the traditional activity of the company since its founding days, takes place on 1.100ha of lakes in 5 locations in the North of Serbia (Jazovo, Srpski Miletić, Žabalj, Susek and Futog).

Wholesale and retail distribution of products from own production as well as imports is expanding over a sales network currently comprising of 5 wholesale distribution centers (Bački Jarak, Belgrade, Čačak, Jagodina, Aleksinac) and 35 specialized shops.

Fish feed production started experimentally in 2007, culminating in the construction of a new fish feed plant in Bački Jarak in 2007, primarily intended to enable tight control of the cost and quality of the main raw material in DTD Ribarstvo’s own fish farming operation.

Agriculture, primarily tied to production of raw materials for fish feed, is carried out on 4.000 ha acquired by DTD Ribarstvo in 2008 (Lovćenac) and 2009 (Banatsko Aranđelovo).

DTD Ribarstvo is currently building a new fish processing plant in Bački Jarak, which will start production by the end of 2009.