In the first half of September, employees of the Volga-Caspian branch of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) conducted annual work to assess the abundance, composition and condition of the ichthyofauna of the shallow zone (up to the 6 m isobath) of the northern part of the Caspian Sea on the R/V Medusa.

As part of the VII International Fishery Forum in St. Petersburg, a plenary session entitled “Fisheries in the Age of Innovation. Technologies of the Future” was held, in which Kirill Kolonchin, Director of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), Doctor of Economics, took part.

Today, at the International Fishery Forum, a presentation of the expedition of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) “Africa – an Ocean of Opportunities” was held, the moderator of which was Deputy Director – Head of the Atlantic Branch Konstantin Bandurin.

Today, the main event of the fisheries industry – the International Fisheries Forum and Exhibition of Fish Industry, Seafood and Technology – started in St. Petersburg.

Field teams of the Baikal branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), have begun work on the omul spawning rivers of Lake Baikal - Selenga, Barguzin, as well as small rivers in the southern part of the lake. The expedition group flew to Northern Baikal, where spawning omul is expected to enter the Upper Angara and Kichera rivers.

Specialists from the Tyumen branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) continue to study the spawning run of the whitefish (shchokur) in the lower reaches of the Ob River in the Priuralsky District of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

The Azov-Black Sea branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), is the only scientific institution that regularly carries out state monitoring of the state of aquatic bioresources and their habitat in the Sea of ​​Azov.

From September 9 to 13, as part of the state monitoring of aquatic biological resources, employees of the Vologda Institute, together with the expedition group of the ichthyology laboratory of the St. Petersburg branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), conducted field studies to assess the current state and number of natural populations of endangered species - Atlantic salmon and brown trout in the Megra River and its tributaries, the Lema, Kimreka, Pedazheka, and Yezhreka rivers of the Vytegorsky District.

The Northern Branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) conducted a route survey on the Megra River in the Arkhangelsk Region to assess the spawning and nursery grounds of salmon species.

In August 2024, specialists from the Sakhalin branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) carried out dredging surveys of grass shrimp in the coastal zone of eastern and western Sakhalin. During the work, the main fishing grounds for grass shrimp were investigated.