The project “Assessing the state of key habitats and developing recommendations for improving conservation measures for stone char, an endangered endemic of the Kamchatka River”, launched in 2021, reached a new level this spring. At the beginning of the new season, its participants - employees of the Kronotsky Reserve and the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problem of the Russian Academy of Sciences - assessed the research sites on a snowmobile.
During the expedition, water and soil samples will be collected for the subsequent determination of the organic composition. This will allow us to trace the dynamics of the composition of water in known spawning grounds of the fish.
The scientists also plan to determine the number of juveniles wintering in the spawning ground and assess the food supply available for fish during the snowy period.