The Targeted funding program – natural resources  (2021-2023) work is on progress. In the areas of “Bumps” and “Small Dam” of the Zhaiyk River, the analysis of the sturgeon juvenile sturgeon is carried out to further determine the effectiveness of natural reproduction of sturgeon.

Every day (from June 1 to July 1 this year), scientists of the Atyrau branch, G.G. Zhunusova and N.N. Batyrbek conduct trawling to catch juvenile sturgeon. They have been recorded in small numbers of stingrays of sterlet larvae and young sevryuga.

Considering that the stocking of artificial young sturgeon fish from the Atyrau sturgeon hatchery has not yet been carried out, we assume that the caught juveniles are “wild”, i.e. the offspring of sturgeon from natural reproduction