The main theme of the conference in 2017 – "Modern challenges and realities of the development industry." In addition to traditional questions concerning measures of state support of aquaculture and investment in the industry, will discuss the priorities of the Union Ostrovidov, prospects of development of sturgeon breeding in different regions of the Russian Federation with a focus on projects in the Ural and Eastern regions and export potential of the industry.

The event will be a discussion on the status and development potential of competences of the Russian sturgeon breeding. How to interact with research centers, commercial companies and farmers, which today focused professional knowledge and how effective are channels of distribution what kinds of questions do we rely on Russian or on borrowed overseas technology – all of these issues in the discussion programme.

In addition, attention will be paid to the state of reproduction of natural populations of sturgeon fish species, improvement of the legislation on the prevention of illegal fishing, the process of transformation of the system of Rybolov.

Special attention in the program of the conference will be devoted to a discussion of Federal and regional programs for the development of aquaculture, examples of successful experience of development of sturgeon breeding.