From May 18 to the present, by employees of FishRPC LLP (head of the expedition team – Makambetov S.Zh., acting head of ichthyology laboratories – Sansyzbaev E.T., acting junior researcher Igilik R., scientific employee – Mukatai A., senior laboratory assistant – Maratuly K. and laboratory assistant – Abishev N.B.) research work is carried out on the Kapshagai reservoir and the Ile River according to BP 021 “Determination of fish productivity of fishery reservoirs and/or their areas, development of biological justification for maximum permissible volumes of catches of fish and other aquatic animals, regime and regulation of fishing in fishery reservoirs of international, republican significance and reservoirs of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin Specially protected natural areas Section: Kapshagai reservoir and Ile River.”

The purpose of this work is to assess the current state of populations of the main commercial fish species to calculate the maximum permissible volumes of removal of fish resources and other aquatic animals and to develop recommendations for the rational management of fishing in the Kapshagai reservoir, the backwater zone, and the Ile River (upper reaches).

Currently, the expedition team is carrying out the following work:

– selection and analysis of hydrochemical samples;

-collection of hydrobiological samples during the growing season (zooplankton, phytoplankton and zoobenthos) and fish nutrition during the feeding period;

– networking for biological analysis of commercial ichthyofauna in fishing areas (biotopes).

During the period of scientific research work at the Kapshagai reservoir, the chief specialist of the Kapshagai fishery inspection department of the Balkhash-Alakol interregional basin fisheries inspection N.V. Shkurkin takes part.