International community to discuss the redistribution of salmon populations in the Pacific Ocean

RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Sunday, February 14, 2021, 22:00 (GMT + 9)

In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on February 19, at the initiative of the Federal Fisheries Agency, an international scientific conference will be held, dedicated to the state of Pacific salmon stocks.

The event will be held in videoconference format with other countries in the Pacific Basin, which traditionally harvest salmon. The event will be attended by experts from the United States, Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

Rosrybolovstvo announced 2021 as the year of salmon, as a feature of the 2020 salmon fishing line in the North Pacific was the weak justification for predictive approaches and the capture of Pacific salmon in certain fishing areas. The simultaneous decline in production volumes in the Far East of Russia, Japan and the coast of North America requires a discussion of the reasons for the significant fluctuations in the abundance of Pacific salmon at a high level of experts.

The conference will be organized by the director of the Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo), Ilya Shestakov, and the director of the All-Russian Fisheries and Oceanography Research Institute (VNIRO), Kirill Kolonchin.

Some 40 industry specialists are expected to participate in the conference directly on Sakhalin. Experts from other regions and countries will participate online: up to 70 connection points are expected, including around 100 fishing companies and industrial associations from Primorsky, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk territories, Sakhalin and Magadan regions.

As a result of the conference, it is planned to publish a collection of articles in Russian and English.

For accreditation and additional questions:

• Alexey Smorodov, VNIRO: +7 (929) 536-01-45, correo electrónico: [email protected]
• Alexander Kolokolchikov, Rosrybolovstvo: +7 (925) 122-72-58, [email protected]
• Olga Shchedrova, Rosrybolovstvo: +7 (906) 778-77-53

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