North Caucasus Number 46

The newsreel tells about how the problem of replenishing fish stocks in the Caspian Sea is being solved, about the work of Dagestani fish scientists and fishermen. Fragments from the documentary film "The Fate of the Caspian" (1967): sea surf, seashore, remnants of a mast on the shore, a fishing boat on the shore, children swinging on ropes, boarded shutters of buildings on a wooden pier, an old gong, an old fishing boat on the shore, birds above him, sand covers the wooden barracks. Map of fishery facilities of the Dagestan ASSR. Scientists-fish farmers of the Dagestan branch of the Caspian Research Institute of Fisheries (Makhachkala) work in the office, study the movement of fish in mountain rivers and lakes. Scientists in a boat take a sample of sea water. A laboratory assistant in the laboratory examines a sample of seawater. General view of the laboratory of the Institute. Scientists carry out a complete analysis of fish, punched tape with the results of the experiments. The computer is working. Fry in a flask. The fishermen in the boat are taking measurements of the caught sturgeon. Biologist P.G. Musaev swims with fishermen in a boat, examines the caught fish. Tersk fish hatchery, work in the shops, preparation of eggs for release into reservoirs, sturgeon in the basin of one of the shops. Factory building, in the foreground - a reservoir. Flowering branch of dogwood. Mountain river, fishermen fish in cages. Kutum goes to spawn in a mountain river. The fish beats in the boxes. Collecting caviar in a basin. Samur fish farm (Magaramkent district), sturgeon fry in vats. Fishermen in boats go out to feed the young of the year in the open sea. View of the fry cages, set up by the fishermen of the factory, in the open sea. NDP on the lake at dawn, reeds. The fish beats against the dam. Fish in the lake. Fishermen take out nets with fish from the lake. Fishermen sit in a boat on the shore of the lake, smoke. Cr.pl. - faces of fishermen. Checking the trial catch by the specialists of the Dagestan Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries - measuring, weighing. Fish caught from the lake in boxes. The production process in one of the smokehouses. Preparing fish for smoking. Women work in the shop, men carry boxes of fish. Fishing boats are sailing into the sea. Fishing nets in the sea. Fishermen are pulling the net. Cr.pl. - fish in the net. Fish at the bottom of the boat.

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1983