As part of the state task, specialists of the Atlantic Branch of VNIRO carry out scientific support of fishing for aquatic biological resources in the Russian part of the Baltic Sea.

In May-June 2022, employees of the Department of Commercial Invertebrates and Algae of the Central Office of VNIRO conducted annual expeditionary work to monitor the fishing of the opilio Chionoecetes opilio crab (Fabricius, 1788) in the Barents Sea.

A conference on waste and the problem of microplastics in the Arctic was held in Arkhangelsk at the site of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M. V. Lomonosov. The conference is one of the events implemented within the framework of Russia's chairmanship in the Arctic Council.

Scientists and fish breeders of the Tyumen branch of VNIRO have released whitefish juveniles grown in the fish breeding area "Lake Vanzetursky Sor" into the natural habitat.

Employees of the Sakhalin branch of VNIRO have started implementing the "Program of state monitoring of Pacific salmon in the water bodies of the Sakhalin Region in 2022-2023" using unmanned aerial vehicles.

The Second UN Conference on the theme "Strengthening ocean conservation efforts based on science and innovation within the framework of the 14th Sustainable Development Goal: Situation analysis, Partnerships and Solutions" was held in Lisbon (Portugal).

Scientists of the Kamchatka branch of VNIRO continue long-term monitoring hydroacoustic studies on the salmon rivers of Kamchatka.

The new catalog of the AGRIS bibliographic database for 2021 includes entries in English about 105 articles published in the specialized journals of VNIRO - "Trudy VNIRO" and "Problems of Fisheries". At the moment, the database contains 1368 articles from these journals.