During the reporting session, scientists from the Azov-Black Sea branch of VNIRO presented the results of scientific research for 2024

 

The heads of laboratories and other scientific departments presented reports on the studies of aquatic biological resources and their habitats in the Azov-Black Sea fishery basin over the past year. A total of 28 reports were heard at the session.

 

The reports addressed issues of the hydrological and hydrochemical regimes of the Black and Azov Seas in 2024, climate changes in the fishery basin in the modern period and in the future, and the features of the formation of the food supply in the Black and Azov Seas last year.

 

Researchers of the Center for Aquatic Biological Resources of the Azov-Black Sea branch of VNIRO presented reports at the reporting session on assessments of the state of stocks of marine commercial fish (turbaler flounder, mullet, sprat, Azov anchovy and gobies), anadromous and semi-anadromous fish species of the Azov Sea, the state of stocks of commercial invertebrates in the Azov Sea and prospects for their harvesting in 2025. The session also considered the results of research in the field of artificial reproduction of aquatic bioresources. In particular, the results of monitoring studies of artificial reproduction of anadromous and semi-anadromous fish in the Azov basin for the past year were presented, the increasing importance of the activities of spawning and growing farms (SGF) for artificial reproduction was noted, since they are the center for preserving the gene pool of semi-anadromous fish species. Scientists also assessed the contribution of factory reproduction to the replenishment of the sturgeon population in the Azov Sea basin for the period from 2017 to 2024.

 

Participants in the reporting session emphasized the effectiveness of scientific research conducted by the Azov-Black Sea branch of VNIRO in 2024 in the water bodies of the Azov-Black Sea fishery basin.

 

Press service of VNIRO