Scientists of the Polar Branch, together with specialists of the VNIRO central office, conducted a comprehensive survey of Kamchatka crab stocks in the vast water area of the southern part of the Barents Sea (the exclusive economic zone of Russia), where this invertebrate species is currently being fished.

On August 30, a scientific research vessel of the marine class "Proteus" departed from the port of Murmansk in a solemn atmosphere. VNIRO scientists will have to overcome 5 thousand km along the inland waterways of Russia and carry out comprehensive monitoring of the seas and inland waters of the European part of Russia.

VNIRO scientists are conducting monitoring diving operations in the coastal zone of the southern Kuril Islands. The main purpose of the research is to study the spatial distribution and biological state of the gray sea urchin and kelp.

Сотрудники Татарского филиала ВНИРО анализируют гидрологические параметры водной среды Куйбышевского водохранилища.

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.