This year, an extensive research program is planned in the Sea of Japan – ichthyoplankton surveys of spawning pollock have recently been completed, and trap surveys on crabs are currently being conducted at the Zodiac research vessel. Great attention to the bioresources of the southernmost Far Eastern Sea is associated both with their great diversity and with possible prospects for the development of fishing.
Conducting surveys on two vessels at the same time will allow you to cover the sea area as much as possible in a short time, while avoiding possible re-accounting of migrating objects, and get an accurate picture of the distribution and structure of the necton in the early summer period. Scientists will receive up-to-date information on stocks of bottom and bottom fish (flounder, navaga, cod, smelt, stingrays, pollock, herring) and invertebrates (shrimp, octopus, cucumaria, sea urchins, trumpeters), on which forecasts of the total allowable catch and recommended catch will be based in the future. Oceanological and hydrobiological surveys will also be carried out to study the habitat and forage base of fishing facilities.
VNIRO specialists from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin, as well as from Moscow take part in the expedition. The vessels will return to Vladivostok in early June.
Also, currently the scientific vessel "Professor Kaganovsky" is working in the Sea of Okhotsk, all expeditions in the waters of the Far Eastern Fisheries Basin are carried out according to plan.
VNIRO Press Service