From July 15 to the present, employees of the FishRPC (head of the expeditionary team Karlybayuly S., junior researcher Otegen S. A., Maratovich K. and laboratory assistant Sakharin. N. K.) have been conducting summer research work on the lakes of the Alakol system according to BP 021 (PP 100) “Determination of fish productivity of fishery reservoirs and/or their sections, development of biological justifications for maximum permissible catch volumes of fish and other aquatic animals, the regime and regulation of fishing in fishery reservoirs of international, republican significance and reservoirs of the protected natural areas of the Balkhash-Alakol basin. Section: ALAKOL SYSTEM OF LAKES.

The objective of this work is to assess the current state of the populations of the main commercial fish species to calculate the maximum permissible volumes of extraction of fish resources and other aquatic animals and to develop recommendations for the rational management of fisheries in the lakes of the Alakol system.

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

– collection and analysis of hydrochemical samples;

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

– collection of samples of natural reproduction of juvenile fish with a fishing seine;

– setting up a net for biological analysis of commercial ichthyofauna in fishing areas (biotopes).

– an echo sounder survey is being carried out to count the number of fish in the Alakol lake system.

During the research work on the reservoirs, the acting head of the Alakol fish inspection department, B.A. Sultanov, took part.

Research of the Alakol lake system continues.