In the central open part of the Sea of Okhotsk there is an international moratorium on fishing. The basis of moratorium is legal acts of Russian Federation and international treaties. Russia has special rights to the fish resources of the Sea of Okhotsk, including the central part. At the same time, in this enclave there has been a fishery for Greenland Halibut by Japanese fishing vessels for 36 years. This fishing has a small scale. Nevertheless, the Government of Japan annually receives confirmation from Russia to continue this fishing. The Sea of Okhotsk in the international legal aspect has a number of features, and the situation changes periodically. The article discusses the various conditions associated with this fishery.

The problem of the influence of anti-Russian sanctions did not immediately affect Russian-Japanese relations in the field of fisheries, but began to manifest itself in rather unexpected ways. The impact of sanctions on the negotiation process on fisheries between Russia and Japan, the problem of non-payments is considered. Also, the impact of sanctions on the supply of Norwegian salmon to Japan, since the delivery routes passed through the sky of Russia, now it is closed to many countries. Fish products from Russia continue to be in high demand on the world market even under sanctions. Therefore, the import of fish by many countries from Russia remains high. In the Russian press, the issue of sanctions in Russian-Japanese fishing relations is covered little and insufficiently competently. The author's analysis of the problem is mainly based on publications in the Japanese media and Japanese government publications.

Russia and Japan are the closest neighbors in the northwestern Pacific. They have common maritime borders and common marine resources. Limited contacts of scientists of the two countries in the field of fisheries began more than 100 years ago since the time of the Portsmouth Peace of 1907. Currently, Russian-Japanese scientific and technical cooperation in the field of fisheries is carried out under two intergovernmental agreements. Also, scientists from the two countries collaborate in a number of international fisheries organizations. Now the issues of preserving and studying the oceans are elevated to the rank of high state policy of Russia and Japan. This may be an additional impulse for cooperation between Russia and Japan in the field of fisheries.

In the period from 1994 to 2007, Japanese scientific and industrial fishing organizations received trainees from the TINRO-Center. The internship topics included familiarization with Japanese resource research, fish processing technologies, and some aspects of aquaculture. The article discusses the conditions that made these internships possible, as well as the change in conditions that led to the completion of this type of Russian-Japanese cooperation in fishing.

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