This work will be carried out in cooperation with OOO Rybopromyshlennaya Kompaniya-2 on the Gatchan River, which flows into the Iretsky Estuary, under the supervision of Andrey Barausov, chief specialist of the branch's salmon fish and aquaculture laboratory. The work is planned to be carried out from mid-May to mid-June.
The expedition is expected to yield valuable representative data on biological characteristics, the number of downstream juveniles, the structure of the species composition, and the environmental conditions of salmon catadromous migration, which will be reflected in scientifically based forecast estimates of their projected catch volumes in the rivers of Shelikhov Bay for the coming years.
"The resumption of research on juveniles in such a hard-to-reach area as Shelikhov Bay is an important milestone in continuing research into the biology of Pacific salmon living in the rivers of the mainland coast of the Magadan Region. We hope that the results obtained in this water body will be carried out on a regular basis in the future," said Yevgeny Metelev, head of the Magadan branch of VNIRO.
Press Service of VNIRO