Students from Russia, Guinea-Bissau and Indonesia presented reports at the Commercial Fishery section
On 20 and 21 April, as part of the 5th International scientific and technical conference for students and cadets Science Days 2026, the Commercial Fishery Department held sessions of the Fundamentals of Commercial Fishery and Commercial Fishery sections to mark the 140th anniversary of F.I. Baranov’s birth, the founder of the commercial fishery science.
P.V. Nassenkov, a senior lecturer at the department, chaired the Fundamentals of Commercial Fishery section, which featured 13 presentations by fourth-year bachelor’s degree students. The topics of the presentations within the framework of the fundamentals of commercial fisheries were diverse and international.
Students from Guinea-Bissau presented papers on the effectiveness of fisheries management systems, improvements to the organisation of fisheries, and the effectiveness of fishing gear in this African country. The papers covered a range of topics within the field of commercial fisheries. Students presented their work on modelling and design of fishing gear, fishing schemes, and mathematical models using artificial intelligence for the automation of fishing processes. Studies on the properties of modern fishing gear were also presented, along with technical and economic justifications for improving the commercial fishery of hydrobionts in the bays of the Kaliningrad region, as well as in the Baltic and Barents Seas.
In the Commercial Fishery section, chaired by the Head of Department, Associate Professor A.A. Nedostup, research presentations were delivered by first- and second-year master’s students specialising in Commercial Fishery. The students presented 10 papers on their research projects. International students spoke about the fisheries sector in Indonesia and the directions of development for commercial fishery in Guinea-Bissau. Some of the master's students had undertaken fishing voyages during their studies, from which they were able to gather data for their master's theses, some of which were introduced at the conference. For example, they presented papers on improving the quality of laying wires on drums, studies on trawl catching efficiency, research into the traction and pull chain characteristics in fishing machinery, and the automation of fishing winches. A number of papers presented improved methods for researching modern fishing materials and models of commercial fishing gear and their individual components made from these materials, with experiments conducted in the hydro channel of OOO Fishering Service.
The jury for the Fundamentals of Commercial Fishery and Commercial Fishery sections highly praised the works presented. Many of the papers had an experimental component, which aroused great interest among those present, including S.A. Borzov, a lead specialist in fishing gear at AO RPK Rybflot-FOR and a member of the jury, who is also the head of the State Examination Commission for bachelor’s and master’s programmes in commercial fishery.
The event is being held as part of a federal budget grant to higher education institutions for the implementation of activities aimed at supporting student scientific societies.
