Currently the “RPC of Fisheries” LLP is doing research works by the project PTF (ПЦФ) “The study of populations of rare and endangered fish species and alien hydrobionts in order to develop recommendations for the artificial reproduction of rare species and the prevention of the spread of alien kinds of fish and other hydrobionts”.  

Research fishing of the surgeon thorn is carried out in accordance with the permit for the use of wildlife of the Committee for Fisheries of the Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan (05/20/2022). During the research fishing, on June 15, 2022, 5 specimens juvenile of the sturgeon thorn were caught in the upper part of the right bank of the Kapshagai reservoir. The length of the fish was 29.0-32.0 cm, weight 99.7-118.6 g. All 5 specimens of the sturgeon thorn after their adaptation on the basis of a private partner “Kapshagay spawning and rearing farm-1973” (КНВХ) LLP will be transported in a live-fish machine with aeration to the fish breeding spot of the Balkhash branch of the “RPC of Fisheries” LLP to formation a replacement broodstock of the sturgeon thorn.