Problems of conservation of species and intraspecies diversity of whitefishes (family Coregonidae) in artificial reproduction
https://doi.org/10.36038/0131-6184-2025-4-105-119
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Abstract
Current scientific understanding of species and intraspecific diversity of whitefishes is not fully reflected in regulatory documents related to artificial reproduction. The currently used practices of stocking water bodies with fish to maintain/restore weakened populations, based on outdated scientific guidelines, often contradict biological feasibility. In this regard, the tasks of maintaining it at the species, intraspecific, and ecosystem levels during artificial reproduction of whitefishes declared in the Convention on Biological Diversity ratified by Russia seem difficult to implement. The article discusses the existing contradictions between current knowledge of the biology of whitefish species, regulatory documents, and fish farming practices of artificial reproduction of regional populations of species.
About the Authors
D. S. Sendek
St. Petersburg Branch of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) (GosNIORH named after L.S. Berg)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitry S. Sendek – Candidate of Biological Sciences, Head of the Sector, Ichthyology Laboratory
199053, Saint Petersburg, Embankment Makarova St., 26
N. A. Bochkarev
Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology SB RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nikolay A. Bochkarev – Doctor of Biological Sciences, Senior Researcher, Group of Physiology and Genetics of Aquatic Organisms
630091, Novosibirsk, Frunze St., 11
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