The article analyzes the monograph by V. P. Ivanova, V. N. Paltseva and S. V. Shipulin “Fish Resources of the Caspian Sea”, published by the publishing house “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” in 2023. The authors of the study believe that, despite the presence of numerous scientific publications on various aspects of the problems of the Caspian Sea, there was a need to prepare an integral work, compact uniting this disparate information, representing the dynamics of the use and reproduction of fish resources and determining the main directions for the conservation and restoration of commercial stocks in the basin. At the same time, in addition to the main, biological part, the first sections of the monograph are devoted to the history of research into the fishery resources of the Caspian Sea, which since 1897 has been concentrated around the first scientific fishery institution in Russia – the Ichthyological Laboratory under the Administration of the Caspian Fisheries, which became the founder of the Caspian Research Institute of Fisheries (CaspNIRKH), as well as the development of fishing in the Volga-Caspian fishing region, which, according to the authors, was from the 15th to the mid – 20th centuries. “the main fish farm of Russia”, providing half of the country’s fish catch. Of considerable interest to specialists involved in the history of the fishing industry is the section of the monograph entitled “Their names cannot be forgotten. Leaders who made a particularly significant contribution to the development of fisheries in the Caspian Basin,” which provides brief, succinct information on the biography and work activities of outstanding organizers of the fishing industry in the region in the second half of the twentieth century. The historical sections of the monograph are given particular value by the fact that the authors of the monograph were witnesses and participants in the restructuring of the fishing industry in the second half of the 20th – early 21st centuries. Their personal assessments and impressions of the events of this period, related to the development of the Caspian region, are of undoubted interest for specialists and all those interested in history.
Vinogradov S. V. History of the fishing industry of the Volga-Caspian region in modern scientific research (review of the monograph by V. P. Ivanov, V. N. Paltsev and S. V. Shipulin “Fish Resources of the Caspian Sea.” Moscow: VNIRO Publ. House, 2023). Kaspiyskiy region: politika, ekonomika, kultura [The Caspian Region: Politics, Economics, Culture]. 2024, no. 2 (79), pp. 124–129. https://doi.org/10.54398/1818510Х_2024_2_124.
