On December 5, Irina Mukhina, Head of the Aquaculture and Hydrobionts Laboratory at the Polar Branch of the Russian State Research Center "All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography" (VNIRO), visited a fish hatchery in Polyarnye Zori (Murmansk Oblast) as part of a commission from the Severomorsk Territorial Administration and the Murmansk Branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Glavrybvod."

Scientists from the Magadan branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) have completed the 2025 marine field surveys, which began in July as part of the annual monitoring of the summer-fall industrial catch of pollock and Pacific herring in the North Okhotsk fishing subzone of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

The autumn assessment of the broodstock of sturgeon, common fish, and paddlefish has been completed at the Volga-Caspian Research and Experimental Aquaculture Complex of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO). Most of the sturgeon specimens are kept in the unique scientific facility "VNIRO Bioresource Collection of Aquatic Bioresources."

On December 2, a meeting on the conservation and restoration of aquatic bioresources in the Sea of ​​Azov basin was held under the chairmanship of Rostov Region Governor Yuri Slyusar. Representatives of the Rostov Region government, the scientific community, and business participated in the event.

From October to November, the Yakutsk branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) conducted a field expedition to collect ichthyological data on the Kolyma River in the Nizhnekolymsky District of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).

November 24th marked Walrus Day in Russia. This annual holiday was established in 2008 to remind people of the need to respect these pinnipeds.

The Russian Geographical Society's international educational campaign, "Geographical Dictation," will be held for the eleventh time in 2025.

At an extended meeting of the Academic Council of the Pacific Branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) on December 1, dissertation topics, supervisors, and individual work plans were approved for first-year graduate students at the branch.

Over the past three years, the Atlantic Branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) has been releasing juvenile whitefish into the Curonian Lagoon of the Baltic Sea, both to compensate for damage caused by the economic activities of construction and reclamation organizations in the region and to replenish the natural population of this valuable commercial species, preserving the water body's biodiversity, stabilizing the whitefish population, and ensuring sustainable fisheries.

In recent years, there has been a steady increase in aquaculture production, with new aquaculture species—various fish and invertebrate species—becoming increasingly popular. Among the latter, crayfish are of particular interest, enjoying a relatively high consumer demand in Russia.