ISSN 2312-9581 (ONLINE), ISSN 2075-1508 (PRINT)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.61976/fsu

“Fisheries Science of Ukraine” – a scientific journal, has been published in Ukraine since 2007.

Founder and publisher of the journal – Institute of Fisheries of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.

State registration of mass media – certificate KB № 12495-1379Р of 19.04.2007, re-registration in 2004 – certificate КВ № 20934-10734ПР of 18.08.2014.

“Fisheries Science of Ukraine” included in the List of Specialized Publications of Ukraine, which can be used for publishing results of doctor’s and candidate’s thesis (biological and agricultural subject specialism – 091, 207), recertification of 17.03.2020 (decision of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine No409)

The editorial board of the magazine includes famous scientists from different countries of the world (Republic of India, Slovak Republic, Republic of Poland, Republic of Croatia, Czech Republic).

The Journal publishes papers on various aspects of fisheries science. The Journal has following sections:

• Actual problems and prospects
• Bioresources and ecology of water bodies
• Technologies in aquaculture
• Selection, genetics and biotechnology
• Feeds and feeding
• Physiology and biochemistry
• Ichthyopathology
• Propositions for production
• Economics
• Young scientist page
• Criticism and Bibliography
• Chronicle
• Anniversary

Research papers are published in Ukrainian and English.

Periodicity – 4 times per year. It is inacceptable for the publisher to break the established terms of publication and release of any issue of the Journal out-of-term. The Journal is published based on the decision of the Academic Council of the Institute of Fisheries of the NAAS.

Postal address:
Editorial board of the Journal “Fisheries Science of Ukraine”, Institute of Fisheries NAAS, 135, Obukhivska St, Kiev-164, Ukraine, 03164,

Phone: +38(044) 423-74-65; phone/fax: +38(044) 423-74-62

Web-site: http://fsu.ua
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Contact Person: Maria Simon
Phone mobile: +38(063)115-3916
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Head of the department:
Igor Buzevych
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Senior Research Scientist
phone: +38(067)498-08-80
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The aim of the department is to study the state and dynamics of biological resources of inland water bodies, to assess the effect of different forms of human impact on fish communities, to determine the efficiency of natural and artificial propagation of fish stocks and to comprehensively analyze the major factors, which result in crisis situations in inland water bodies. The area of the Institute scientific control include all major inland water bodies of Ukraine including: Kyiv, Kaniv, Kremenchuk, Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dniester, Kakhovka, Chervonooskil reservoirs as well as Dnieper-Bug mouth system and a number of small and medium reservoirs across the entire territory of Ukraine.

The importance of the department activities is related to the valid regulatory-legislative base of Ukraine because all inland water bodies of Ukraine of national importance belong to the category of commercial fishery sites that implies their special status regarding the provision of favorable conditions of fish fauna existence. At the same time, during their creation and further exploitation, large reservoirs were de facto the water bodies of complex purpose, the exploitation of which defines the direction and intensity of the succession processes in aquatic ecosystems. The sustainable propagation of fish fauna and formation of the resource base for commercial fishery in the Dnieper reservoirs have to be based currently on the principles, which take into account not only biological but also organizational aspects of commercial fishery. In this case, the changes of dynamic and functional parameters of fish communities can serve as a macrocharacteristic of aquatic ecosystems while the assessment of the major factors of the formation and exploitation of commercial fish stocks are a basis for prognoses and regulation of fishery related activities.

The practical realization of major trends of the department research is performed based on the results on annual field works carried out by the Institute according to the approbated methods of ichthyological, hydrochemical and hydrobiological studies on the Dnieper reservoirs and Dnieper-Bug mouth system. The collection of primary ichthyological and hydrobiological materials is carried out at control-observation stations, fishery enterprises as well as during research cruises of the research vessel. The ichthyological studies carried out by the department of the reservoirs’ bioresources are the fullest and longest during the entire period of the exploitation of large Ukrainian reservoirs, thanks to which we created a unique database on the biological state of the populations of major commercial fish species. It allows developing long-term prognoses of their commercial exploitation and determining the direction and intensity of the succession processes in fish communities. The available array of own data allows developing the methodical approaches for ichthyological studies on inland water bodies. The department prepared and improved a number of methods for complex fisheries research adapted for specific conditions of Ukrainian reservoirs.

Major areas of the laboratory activities:

1. annual preparation of major regulatory documents on the regulation of fishery related activities in inland water bodies (limits, prognoses, fish harvest regimes, biological justifications for artificial fish stocking, etc.);
2. commercial fish fauna monitoring in inland water bodies from the commercial and ecological points of view;
3. studies of major aspects of aquatic ecosystem functioning, which have direct or indirect effect on the state of fish communities (conditions of reproduction and fattening, different forms of human impact, etc.);
4. scientific provision and support of commercial fishery exploitation of the inland water bodies of national importance;
5. justification of measures for an increase in the efficiency of commercial fish harvest;
6. ensuring the sustainable state of commercial fish harvest;
7. principles of the management if internal-ecosystem processes with the aid of the selection of a complex of aquatic organisms;
8. development of the conceptual bases for the creation of a uniform system for the prevention of extreme situation on the reservoirs;
9. unification of the methodical apparatus of ichthyological studies on aquatic ecosystems.

Propositions of services for individuals and legal entities:

• development of scientific-biological justifications and regimes of commercial exploitation (special fishery farms, recreational and sport fishing);
• development of biological justifications for the measures on the artificial propagation of fish fauna and fisheries enhancement of water bodies;
• fish stock assessment, assessment of the optimum number and types of fishing gears used for commercial fish harvest;
• development of the fisheries characteristics of water bodies (their parts) including for the preparation of environmental impact assessment;
• monitoring of the results of fish protection and compensation measures;
• other works related to the determination of quantitative and qualitative parameters of fish fauna and factors having effect on them.

All documents prepared within the framework of the mentioned works comply with the requirements of valid regulatory-legislative base regarding the protection, restoration and exploitation of aquatic biological resources.

Chief  librarian
Tetyana Shvets
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The library of the Institute of Fisheries NAAS is a specialized scientific-accessory subdivision, which carries out information-bibliographic and library support of institute’s scientific research.

The library has a specialized stock of scientific literature on aquaculture, inland fisheries, ichthyology, hydroecology, hydrobiology, general biology, zoology, hydrotechnics, aquaculture economy.

The thorough use of the library stock is facilitated by the reference-bibliographic tool composed of catalogues and file-cabinets. The card variant has alphabetical and systematic catalogues, which include Institute reports, periodic journals, dissertations and dissertation abstracts, articles of the Institute employees (partially). The electronic catalogue created on the IRBIS system base include monographs, collections of scientific articles, articles from periodicals and other publications.

The scientific library stock is composed of about 50 000 items and contains all types of print publications.

Major areas of the library activities are:

1. forming, storing and organizing the rational use of document-information resources necessary for research activities of the Institute;
2. information-bibliographic and library support of library users;
3. scientific processing of documents and organization of reference-bibliographic tool of the library.

The library provides information and library-bibliographic services to scientists, specialists, postgraduate students, students of higher education institutions. Provision of services to readers is performed through subscription, in reading room and through an inter-library exchange system.

Provision of services of readers:

April – September:
Mon. – Thus. from 9:00 to 17:00;
Fr. from 9:00 to 14:00.

October – March:
Mon. – Thus. from 9:00 to 16:00;
Fr. from 9:00 to 14:00.

Lunch break from 12:00 to 12:30.

Head of the laboratory:
Dragan Liudmyla
Ph.D of Biological Sciences
mobile: +38(067)739-32-74
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The laboratory has been created with a goal to carry out ecological studies of water, soils of inland water bodies and aquatic organisms, analysis of the effect of organic and mineral fertilizers on the development of natural food base of water bodies, detection of major pollutants in water bodies.

The importance of the laboratory activities is related to the fact that the efficiency of hydrobiont rearing rely heavily on the ecological state of water bodies. Currently, water bodies are continuously polluted by hazardous pollutants such as heavy metals, oil products, organochlorine pesticide, etc. The determination of pollutant levels is an important task because hydrobionts can transfer toxic substances to humans through the food chain. In addition, to meet the environmental legislation requirements, the organizations, the production activities of which has direct effect on the environment, have to perform in-house controls of both environmental pollution sources (effluent waters, industrial wastes from stationary pollution source, etc.) and nature objects (surface water bodies, bottoms, etc.). The main documents, which regulate the in-house control are Water and Land Codes of Ukraine, Law of Ukraine “On Environmental Protection”, Law of Ukraine “On the protection of atmospheric air”, Regulations on the collection of waste waters from the users to sewage system, Directives of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, guidelines, etc.

The methodology of the lab works is based on generally accepted methods of ecological, hydrochemical, toxicological studies, which are carried out in both laboratory and field conditions – on reservoirs and aquaculture enterprises.

Major areas of the laboratory activities:

1. creation and improvement of the methods used for complex fisheries studies adapted for specific conditions of the reservoirs of Ukraine;
2. modeling the ecological processes in water bodies of different purpose;
3. modeling the processes of dilution and mixing of the sewage waters of enterprises with surface natural waters;
4. development of normative documents on analytical ecological studies of the composition and properties of environmental components;
5. laboratory analytical ecological studies of water, soils and bottom sediments from water bodies of different purposes;
6. complex monitoring of the state of natural and artificial water objects;
7. environmental assessment of the quality of surface waters of Ukraine by classes and categories.

Propositions of services for individuals and legal entities:

• full chemical analysis of water quality;
• providing recommendations on the improvement of water quality for different purposes;
• consultative aid regarding the use of sorbents and reagents in water bodies;
• chemical analysis of soils;
• chemical analysis of frozen and chilled fish;
• chemical analysis of sewage waters and provision of recommendations on their purification.

The Laboratory of Ecological Studies of the Institute of Fisheries is attested by the State Enterprise “Ukrmetrteststandart” (attestation certificate № PT-223/13), has high qualified specialists, appropriate material and normative-methodical base for performing measurements of following parameters (according to the field of attestation):

surface waters, pond water, tank water (dissolved oxygen, carbon dioxide, pH, permanganate value, ammonium nitrogen, nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, total iron, ammonium, chlorides, sulphates, total hardness, calcium, potassium+sodium, mineralization, cadmium, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, manganese);

sewage (return) waters (odor, transparency, pH, ammonium nitrogen, nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, total iron, chlorides, sulphates, calcium, magnesium, mineralization);

frozen and chilled fish from inland water bodies (lead, cadmium, copper, zinc);

soils (lead, manganese, cadmium, copper, zinc);

drinking water (pH, permanganate value, ammonium nitrogen, nitrates, nitrites, phosphates, total iron, hydrocarbonates, chlorides, sulphates, total hardness, calcium, magnesium, mineralization.

The laboratory has prepared and improved a number of the methods for performing complex fisheries scientific studies adapted to the specific conditions of the water bodies of Ukraine.