Fishing is one of the oldest industries. In the history of mankind, it was known long before the advent of agriculture and cattle breeding, and for a long time remained the main source of food, along with hunting. Today, aquatic biological resources remain among the most important and irreplaceable food reserves for humans on Earth.
In written sources of the 9th century there are already references to marine fisheries in the North-West of Russia, and at the end of the 10th - beginning of the 11th centuries the first agreement was concluded between the Norwegians and the Russians, delimiting spheres of influence in the northern seas. At the end of the 19th century, industrial fishing emerged as an industry, and in the second half of the 20th century, the richest resources of the open areas of the World Ocean were developed. Enormous credit for this belongs to Russian (Soviet) fisheries science, which has studied and described the most significant reserves of oceanic fish.
The VNIRO team today congratulates all employees of the fishing industry, professionals in the fish processing industry, employees of fisheries protection authorities, scientists in the field of aquaculture, as well as everyone who cannot imagine their life without large and small fishing gear!
We wish everyone good health, big catches and, as they say, “no tail, no scales”!
VNIRO press service