Ichthyofauna of the Islands of the Taui Bay coastal waters and recreational fishing

Abstract

The material for research was a collected fish in the littoral and sublittoral zones of the Islands of Nedorazumeniya and Zavyalov coasts (Northern part of the sea of Okhotsk) in June 2018 and August 2019.The authors’ research identified 22 and 25 species of fish that live in the summer in the littoral and sublittoral zones of the sea coast of Zavyalov and Nedorazumeniya Islands, respectively. Of these the most numerous are the Blue rockfish Sebastes glaucus (24.5-49.0%), and White spotted greenling Hexagrammos stelleri (13.5-35.7%). Most species are demersal and benthic ichthyocoen. 41% of the species are characterized by the broad-boreal near-Asian type of range, 28% - mainly boreal, 13% - Arctic-boreal, 9% - high-boreal near-Asian and broad-boreal Pacific. For the development of recreational fishing, 15 species of fish can be promising, for which size and weight indicators are given.