Korelsky, V. F. Fish, fishermen and fish industry in Russia / V. F. Korelsky. - Bremen : Krebs, [1993?]-.

Lake and in the lakes of the north-western Russia also began. In many regions of the country, expeditions searched for natural resources and studied flora and fauna. The names of Krasheninnikov, Steller, Gmelin and many others have become history of the Russian natural sciences. They were the first in our country who began studying numerous representatives of the sea fauna. They mapped the details of the Caspian, Aral, Baltic, and White seas. The first museum of natural sciences (“Kunst Kamera”) was opened. Somewhat later the Academy of Sciences was founded in Russia. An understanding arises of the necessity of solicitous attitude to the fishing of many kinds of fresh-water fish, of a real threat to exhaust their stocks as a result of an unwise fishing and the necessity of adopting fishing laws. To a certain degree, the Collegiums and Governorships established at the time of Peter the First aided the management of fisheries. to the 18th century Russian fishermen developed the northern part of the Pacific They began hunting seals and kalans, procuring “fish tooth,” making the first attempts at fishing salmon, cod and other fish. A “Russian-American company” was formed aimed at developing sea animal hunting and fishery. The wide expanses of Russia were thoroughly studied and regions showing promise of fishing were discovered. By that time, the first attempts had been made to breed fish on some private and monasterial country estates. By the 19th century, Russia had already had its boundaries, its population approached a hundred million. The Serfdom was eliminated and a new problem, that of employment, arose. It became necessary and possible to essentially intensify fishing, in the first place in the regions close to Astrakhan. As long as the mid-18th century, Lopekhin and Pallas, eminent scientists of that time, were sent to the Caspian basin where they took part in the expedition organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences (1768-1774), which managed to describe the fish of that sea, namely, Caspian shad, vimba, stellate sturgeon, and others. As a result, the development of herring fishery on the Volga was scientifically substantiated. Somewhat later, the well-known zoologist. Academician K.M. Ber, who devised the principal scheme for the development of fishing in the Caspian sea basin, worked there. He also worked out the fishing laws for this basin. Late in the 19th century, and at the beginning of the 20th century, special fish industrial investigations were carried out throughout the territory of Russia (on rivers, lakes, sea coasts). Such eminent scientists as Derzhavin, Nessler, Grimm, Schmidt, Danilovsky, Knipovich, Berg and many others have carried out large-scale investigations in the Caspian, Azov, Aral, White, Barents, and Japan seas. The results of these investigations made it possible to reveal the composition of ichthyofauna of these basins, to study the peculiarities of the ecology of many objects, and to get the first idea on the state and volume of fish supply from these important fish industrial regions of Russia. The most intensive fishing was in the lower reaches of the Volga River, where, in spring species like the Caspian roach, sazan, bream, pike perch, and migrating species like the Caspian herring and sturgeon were caught by sweep-nets, whose catch became as large as 600-700 thousand tons by the beginning of the 20th century. The catch of sea-roach, bream, pike perch and sazan with 1 0