In the period from May 15 to June 13, in the apex of the Onega Bay of the White Sea, specialists from the Northern Branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) conducted annual comprehensive studies at the spawning grounds of the White Sea herring.

In early June, the IV Regional Forum "Ecology-2025" was held in the conference hall of the Government of Primorsky Krai. The date of the event coincided with World Environment Day and Ecologist Day in Russia.

On five rivers of the western coast of Kamchatka: the Ozernaya, Bolshaya, Pymta, Utka, Kolpakova rivers and on two rivers of the eastern coast: Kichiga, Khaylyulya, censuses of young Pacific salmon were conducted.

The Northern Branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) continues annual research in the Chupa Bay of the Kandalaksha Gulf of the Republic of Karelia.

Specialists from the laboratory of commercial invertebrates of the Tyumen branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) conducted observations of the distribution, abundance and reproduction of crayfish, as well as their habitat in the lakes of the south of the Tyumen region.

On June 16 of this year, the Russian Ministry of Justice registered the order of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture "On the establishment of restrictions on Pacific salmon fishing in the Far Eastern fishery basin in 2025".

On June 12 and 13, a delegation from the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), headed by its director, Doctor of Economics Kirill Kolonchin, held a business meeting with the leadership of Zhejiang Ocean University as part of a business visit to Zhoushan (the fishing capital of China).

On June 16, in the Curonian Spit National Park in the Kaliningrad Region, the release of endangered grey seal pups took place. They had undergone rehabilitation in the rehabilitation center for marine mammals, opened in March 2025 on the site of the scientific and experimental base of the Atlantic branch of the Russian State Research Center "All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography" (VNIRO).

Specialists from the Pacific branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO), who left the port of Vladivostok on the research vessel Professor Kaganovsky in early June, carried out comprehensive research work in the epipelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean waters near the Kuril Islands on their way to the Bering Sea in addition to the survey on the research vessel TINRO.

The scientific group of the Tatar branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation "All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography" (VNIRO) successfully completed the stage of the Large Freshwater Expedition on the R/V Midia on the Kuibyshev Reservoir. As part of the expedition voyage, the planned studies were carried out in full.