Two expedition teams of the Laboratory of Aquaculture of Invertebrates and Algae of the Sakhalin Branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) together with diving groups carried out the planned work in the Aleksandrovsky Bay (Sea of Japan, Tatar Strait) and off the southeastern coast of Sakhalin Island.

On August 6, specialists from the Azov-Black Sea branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) began the second stage of the lampara, ichthyoplankton, and zooplankton survey in the Sea of Azov.

The Middle Volga branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) carried out the first stage of the summer complex expedition in the waters of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir.

The complex of invertebrate studies will be carried out by experienced carcinologists from the Magadan and Pacific branches of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO).

In July of this year, specialists from the Volga-Caspian branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) conducted control catches to study the feeding grounds and distribution of producers of semi-anadromous and river fish in the rolling part of the western watercourses of the Volga Delta.

At the end of July, as part of the state monitoring of aquatic biological resources and their habitat in inland waters, specialists from the St. Petersburg and Novgorod branches of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) conducted joint comprehensive field studies on Lake Ilmen.

In the second half of July, specialists from the Volga-Caspian branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) carried out a sturgeon survey voyage in the Northern Caspian on the research vessel “Gidrobiologist”.

In order to assess the productivity of sturgeon species and black-backed herring, monitoring work continued on the R/V Ecolog and Daphnia of the Volga-Caspian branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) in the bed of the Volga River, in the area of Gusiny Island, in the waters of the Main Bank - a section of the Volga-Caspian Marine Shipping Canal (VCMSC 68-140 km).

From July 14 to 16 of this year, the chief specialist of the aquaculture sector of the Khabarovsk branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) Zh.S. Litovchenko, as part of the Russian delegation, took part in events on the release of sturgeon juveniles into the border waters of the Amur River in the city of Fuyuan (PRC).

In June-July of this year, the Baikal branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) conducted control catches of fattening aggregations of Baikal omul.