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The Fishery is the central aspect of the Russian Fisheries complex. Siberian marine (Karskoye, Laptev’s, and East Siberian) and inland (Lakes Baikal, Taimyr, Teletskoye, Chany, Pyasino, etc.) reservoirs and watercourses occupy a significant share in the all-Russian catch of fishes. Of the latter, the largest rivers in Central and Eastern Siberia - Yenisey, Angara and Lena, have large reserves of aquatic biological resources; in Western Siberia – Ob’ and Irtysh, belonging to the Arctic Ocean basin, and a small area of Southeastern Transbaikalia drained by the rivers of the Amur Basin, which carry their waters to the Pacific Ocean. The article provides a systematic, ecological, and arealogical analysis of the state, as well as an assessment of the resource potential of commercial aquatic biological resources in Siberia in the main physical and geographical areas, such as Western, Middle, Eastern and Northeastern Siberia, the mountains of Southern Siberia, the Baikal Region and Transbaikalia. The aquatic biological resources of the studied region include 58 species, including two species of Lampreys – Siberian and Japanese (Pacific), as well as subspecies and ecological races of Whitefish-ludoga, Ripus, Brook and Rainbow Trout. Of these, the most representative are Salmoniformes (26 species, or 44.8% of the total species structure) and Cypriniformes (13 species; 22.4%). 31 species (or 53.4% of 58 species) are aboriginal, 12 (20.7%) are acclimatized. Of the aboriginal fish, the main core is represented by Holarctic (17.2%), Siberian and East Eurasian (15.5% each) species, and a little Circumpolar and North Asian (6.9% each) species. Among the aborigines, the proportion of Endemic species is high (only 17.2%), of which endemic forms predominate Baikalian (8,6%), the rest ( Buryat, Central Asian , etc.) occupy very modest positions (1-2 species, 1,7-3,4%). The mixed group of Acclimationists consists of Invasive from Europe, the Far East and North America (3.4-10.3%). Almost a third, or 29.3% of the species structure, are "Red book" species of various levels, as well as those included in various Environmental Conventions, including CITES, and in the "List of especially valuable ... aquatic biological resources ..." (2013; Siberian and Amur Sturgeon, Kaluga). Among the "Red book" harvested species, there are very rare, narrow-areas Endemics and universally low-abundance species (Sterlet, Taimen, Nelma, Arctic Char, Davatchan, Baunt Whitefish, Siberian Lamprey, etc.).
Published in: Vestnik of North-Eastern Federal University History Political Science Law
Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 7-31