Methods for regulating pacific salmon fishing in the Amur River basin in 2018–2024

The article presents an overview of scientifically based measures to regulate Pacific salmon fishing during the period of decline in their numbers in the Amur River basin in 2018–2024, implemented in the form of amendments to the Fishing Rules for the Far Eastern Fishery Basin, annual regional Pacific Salmon and Char Fishing Strategies (Salvelinus species) and orders of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture establishing individual restrictions for the calendar year. All the developed measures were aimed at prohibiting the use of certain fishing gear, reducing their dimensions and increasing the intervals between their locations, and updating the prohibited areas in the mouths of spawning rivers. As a result, the fishing load was minimized and the expansion of the spawning part of the range was noted. The positive effect of the introduced measures is reflected in the opening of industrial fishing in the Amur Estuary in 2024.