A specific feature of the 2020 salmon fishing season in the North Pacific was the poor accuracy of predictive approaches and the catch of Pacific salmon in certain fishing areas. The simultaneous decline in harvest in the Russian Far East, Japan, and the North American coast requires a discussion of the reasons for significant fluctuations in the abundance of Pacific salmon at a high expert level..
The Conference is organized by the Federal Agency for Fishery and the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography. The organizing Committee of the Conference is chaired by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation – Head of the Federal Agency for Fishery I. V. Shestakov.
Well-known international experts and scientists from Russia, Canada, USA, Japan, Republic of Korea are invited to participate in the work.
The conference will be moderated by Kirill Kolonchin, Director of VNIRO.
About 100 fishing enterprises and industry associations from Primorsky region, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin, Magadan regions have already expressed their desire to take part in the event.
The conference materials are planned to be published as a collection of contributions in Russian and English.
Press Service VNIRO