On May 5, 2025, a scientific and production complex for growing crustaceans was opened at the Vzmorye Aquaculture Research Center of the Azov-Black Sea Branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO). The ceremony was attended by VNIRO Director, Doctor of Economics Kirill Kolonchin, the branch management and invited guests from the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Specialists from the Magadan branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) have begun annual work on studying the spawning migrations of Pacific herring, outlining the boundaries of its spawning grounds and spawning conditions this year.

For the first time in the last ten years, specialists from the Magadan branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) have resumed work interrupted in 2015 on monitoring the downstream migration of Pacific salmon juveniles in the rivers of Shelikhov Bay.

At the initiative of the Vologda branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO), since 2014, events on the artificial reproduction of rare and vulnerable fish species have been carried out in the region on an ongoing basis using funds from compensation measures for damage caused to aquatic bioresources by economic activities.

From April 14 to May 8, specialists from the Central Institute of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) and its Polar Branch A.V. Labutin and N.N. Lukin took part in the third comprehensive expedition to the islands of the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

On May 12, the first day of the 32nd annual meeting of the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAC), the winner of the 2025 NPAC Award was announced.

On May 7, at the Scientific and Experimental Aquaculture Complex "BIOS" of the Volga-Caspian branch of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation "All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography" (VNIRO), with the participation of the commission monitoring the implementation of work on the artificial reproduction of aquatic biological resources, the first release of sturgeon juveniles this year was carried out.