Leading specialist of the scientific expedition department of the Polar Branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) Yuri Mullin conducted research on the snow crab opilio on the vessel PK-1654 "Volk Arktiki" in the exclusive economic zone of Russia and the open part of the Barents Sea.

On July 23, the Vologda branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) held the 2nd stage of the VNIRO Amateur Fishing Championship "Fishing for Science". The winners of the 1st stage of the Championship from the Polar, Northern, Karelian and Vologda branches of VNIRO took part in the competition. The venue for the competition was the Kuzminsky Canal of the Northern Dvina Lock System in the city of Kirillov in the Vologda Region.

Last week, the Magadan Regional Library named after A.S. Pushkin hosted a visiting meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Regions of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS), where they discussed the further development of the Magadan Regional Branch and talked about major regional projects.

Specialists from the Baikal branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) assessed the abundance and biomass of commercial fish stocks, the state of the food supply and the habitat of ichthyofauna in the Ivano-Arakhlei lakes and rivers of the Trans-Baikal Territory. Field research lasted more than a month.

One of the main tasks of the Volga-Caspian branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) is to study the state of the Caspian Sea hydrobiont populations, aquatic biological resources and their habitat. For this purpose, a group of researchers went on a month-long expedition to the Middle Caspian on the research vessel "Issledovatel Kaspiia".

During June-July, studies were carried out on the Kama and Votkinsk reservoirs, the Sylva, Chusovaya, Tulva, Lenva and Yaiva rivers.

On July 18, employees of the Department of State Control, Supervision and Protection of Aquatic Biological Resources in the Republic of Tatarstan of the Volga-Kama Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, together with representatives of the Tatar branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), as part of monitoring the state of aquatic biological resources and their habitat, collected water samples to assess the quantitative content of microplastics in the waters of the Kuibyshev Reservoir in Kazan.

From July 16 to 22, employees of the Yakut branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) carried out monitoring work in the largest lake in Yakutia - Nidzhili.

On July 16, the chief specialist of the aquaculture sector of the Khabarovsk branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) Zh.S. Litovchenko, as part of the Russian delegation, took part in the release of juvenile sturgeon species from fish hatcheries in Tongjiang, China.

Reconnaissance fishery research was carried out on lakes in the Kurgan and Chelyabinsk regions. A scientific expedition of specialists from the laboratory of commercial invertebrates of the Tyumen branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) covered 30 “Artemia” reservoirs.