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The rational use of the White Sea biological resources and production potential

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This article is based on a paper heard at a meeting of the RAS Presidium. The state of the biological resources of the White Sea is characterized, and a conclusion about the high production potential of its biota is made in the article. It is shown that the reserves of herring (herring being the main fishery object), overexploited by excessive fishing and other anthropogenic impacts, are not limited by zooplankton production. In the authors’ opinion, the rational use of the White Sea’s production potential and the recovery from a fishery depression is the mariculture of White Sea organisms.

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Original Russian Text © V.Ya. Berger, A.A. Sukhotin, 2010, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 11, pp. 968–973.

Viktor Yakovlevich Berger, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), is chief researcher at the White Sea Biological Station of the RAS Zoological Institute. Aleksei Aleksandrovich Sukhotin, Cand. Sci. (Biol.), is head of this station.

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Berger, V.Y., Sukhotin, A.A. The rational use of the White Sea biological resources and production potential. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 80, 485–490 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331610060031

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