Field teams of the Baikal branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), have begun work on the omul spawning rivers of Lake Baikal - Selenga, Barguzin, as well as small rivers in the southern part of the lake. The expedition group flew to Northern Baikal, where spawning omul is expected to enter the Upper Angara and Kichera rivers.

Specialists from the Tyumen branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) continue to study the spawning run of the whitefish (shchokur) in the lower reaches of the Ob River in the Priuralsky District of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

The Azov-Black Sea branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), is the only scientific institution that regularly carries out state monitoring of the state of aquatic bioresources and their habitat in the Sea of ​​Azov.

From September 9 to 13, as part of the state monitoring of aquatic biological resources, employees of the Vologda Institute, together with the expedition group of the ichthyology laboratory of the St. Petersburg branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), conducted field studies to assess the current state and number of natural populations of endangered species - Atlantic salmon and brown trout in the Megra River and its tributaries, the Lema, Kimreka, Pedazheka, and Yezhreka rivers of the Vytegorsky District.

The Northern Branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) conducted a route survey on the Megra River in the Arkhangelsk Region to assess the spawning and nursery grounds of salmon species.

In August 2024, specialists from the Sakhalin branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) carried out dredging surveys of grass shrimp in the coastal zone of eastern and western Sakhalin. During the work, the main fishing grounds for grass shrimp were investigated.

From August 29 to September 3, employees of the Northern Branch of the Russian State Research Center of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) conducted research on aquatic bioresources on the Mesna River in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug in order to study the state of natural reproduction of Atlantic salmon, as well as other fish species.

As part of the scientific support for the 2024 salmon fishing season in the Magadan Region, as well as on the basis of the Program of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation, the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO)" "Comprehensive studies of salmon in the Russian Far East in 2022-2025 and the list of priority expeditionary studies for 2024", specialists from the Magadan branch carried out monitoring work in the Shelikhov Bay.

According to the Fishing Rules for the Volga-Caspian Fishery Basin, approved by the order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation dated October 13, 2022 No. 695, the autumn industrial catch of aquatic bioresources in the Astrakhan region both in the river and in the coastal zone of the Caspian Sea began on September 11 and will last until December 10.

From September 2 to September 11, specialists from the Altai branch of the Russian State Research Center of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) conducted a final expedition to brackish water bodies in the Altai Territory as part of the state assignment on the topics of state monitoring and reconnaissance studies of the state of aquatic biological resources (gammarids, chironomids, chaoborids, copepods and other invertebrates). During the trip, 15 water bodies in 9 administrative districts were surveyed.