On February 6, the outstanding Soviet and Russian marine biologist, the largest Russian specialist in cephalopods, senior researcher at the laboratory of ecology of commercial populations and stock assessment of the Atlantic branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) Chingiz Mukhametovich Nigmatullin celebrates his 80th anniversary.

Director of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), Doctor of Economics Kirill Kolonchin and Deputy Director - Head of the Atlantic Branch Konstantin Bandurin accompany the head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries Ilya Shestakov on a working trip to the Kingdom of Morocco. Members of the Russian delegation visited the international exhibition Salon Halieutis 2025 Agadir.

The calendar winter of the period 2024-2025 in the Astrakhan region is characterized as abnormally warm. Warm weather was established throughout January and in the first days of February throughout the territory, with air temperatures exceeding +10 °C on some days. Due to high water temperatures, the average for December is +2.2 °C, January - +0.8 °C with the norm of +1.4 °C and +0.4 °C, respectively, unfavorable conditions for winter ice fishing in the Volga-Caspian fishery sub-area developed throughout the entire period, which affected the total number of amateur fishermen on the watercourses and reservoirs of the Volga River.

The research vessel of the Polar Branch of the Russian State Research Center “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO) “Vilnyus” has set off on an annual winter expedition, where it will conduct a trawl-acoustic survey of fish and commercial invertebrates in the exclusive economic zone of Russia in the Barents Sea.

On January 30, the St. Petersburg branch of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation "All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography" (VNIRO) chaired by the director, Doctor of Economics Kirill Kolonchin, held a Reporting Session on the results of applied scientific research of VNIRO, approved by the state assignment for 2024.

On January 26, Nina Yuryevna Shpigalskaya, head of the Kamchatka branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), candidate of biological sciences, celebrated her anniversary.

The fishing season forecast "Okhotsk pollock - 2025" has been published. It was prepared in December 2024 by leading specialists of the Far Eastern branches of the Russian State Research Center "All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography" (VNIRO): Pacific, Kamchatka, Magadan and Sakhalin.