The history of the origin and formation of VNIRO - a history of the development of domestic fisheries research in general. Nearly all modern scientific research institutes of the fishing industry at various times acted as the head of the Institute of branches VNIRO.
The very idea of ??establishment of the Institute was laid versatility, complexity and interdependence of marine fisheries research - from the study of abiotic (physical and chemical) and biotic (phytoplankton and zooplankton, trophic relations) habitat conditions of commercial species to assess the biological and commercial productivity of water bodies, identify patterns distribution and reproduction of aquatic organisms, the forecast of the allowable catch, that is creating the foundations of rational commercial fishing facilities, as well as their processing.
In the scientific baggage VNIRO 50 basic and 100 strategic achievements. On their basis in the postwar period has been established branch system of assessment of stocks (currently more than 700 units) and determine the amount of total allowable catches (TACs) of aquatic biological resources of the ocean; scientific basis for biotechnology and increasing fish productivity of individual seas (the Sea of ??Azov, Caspian Sea), as and large regions of the oceans. After regulation of river flows in the basins of the Caspian Sea and the Sea of ??Azov and the sharp decline in sturgeon spawning grounds, the problem of their salvation has been solved by the development of biotechnologies of reproduction and construction osetrovodnyh plants.