For two days, on July 1-2, Yekaterinburg became a point of intersection of different views and approaches: experts from China, Egypt, Germany, the USA, Bolivia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries participated in the conference. Such an international team made it possible to look at project management not through one prism, but from several sides at once, taking into account different economic models and regional practices.
An important detail was the active participation of the scientific community: Anatoly Truba, Chief Researcher at the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), joined the organizing committee. This highlights how much interdisciplinarity is in demand today: economic and design tools are increasingly becoming the mainstay for solving industry problems, including in environmental management and aquaculture.
The Ural branch of VNIRO was represented at the conference by Konstantin Yershov, Head, and Tatiana Eremkina, Senior Researcher. Their plenary report "Problems and prospects for the development of commercial fish farming in the waters of the Sverdlovsk region" aroused great interest: the topic is directly related to import substitution, the development of domestic production and the rational use of water resources.
In the report, the speakers touched upon the most pressing issues faced by fish farming projects: from administrative barriers and gaps in the regulatory framework to a lack of funding for science and mandatory scientific support for work. This is not just a list of difficulties — these are clear points where management and design decisions can really make a difference.
The main outcome of the conference is not only the exchange of ideas, but also the formation of practical guidelines: from the refinement of regulatory documents to the introduction of new management tools. And the international format helps not to reinvent the wheel, but to look for working solutions and adapt best practices to Russian realities.
VNIRO Press Service
