Centuries ago in the really ancient times our two continents were linked by Beringia Bridge, and aboriginal groups of North-East Asia and North-West America were one people that used fish as the most important food.

It is quite recent that Europeans have paid attention to the enormous fish resources of the Northern Pacific – only since the end of the 19th century. Such late discovery of resources in the hard to access and really severe Pacific Ocean could be the sole reason for the fact such tremendous area of the World Ocean in terms of commercial fisheries resources remains rather intact even until now.

However right now these resources are facing a very serious threat. Humankind seems to repeat the history it had in the Northern Atlantic where the world largest commercial stocks of Cod are depleted and the large Salmon herds are almost completely lost.

People living in the coastal states of the Northern Pacific face now a very important task to pursue the wise use of natural resources and conservation of biological diversity. This is also a very complicated task as in the latest centuries people got a lot of negative experience in commercial fisheries, while gaining only some smaller good examples and bits of positive experience. Really small bits of human wisdom gained with salt from tears, sea-salt and sweat – is we talk on this in fishermen terms.

Experience of Russia that was until recent among the larger fishing empires is as unique as the fisheries experience of the USA, Canada, Japan and China. At the moment Russian fisheries are in the deep system-based crisis. Therefore finding positive solutions to many challenges of the fisheries industry is of double importance. This is in our opinion of the same importance also for the World outside Russia that uses fish and seafood, - as the role of Russia in terms of the global food security is still important and is likely to increase more and more in future. And the latter is possible only if the goals of sustainable wise fishing combined with conservation of aquatic biological resources are reached.

I am also sending my apologies to you as a Reader as I might be sometimes too tough and too strict in my judgements and opinions on the current fisheries policy in Russia and on the entire management system in this industry and the role of Russian state in conservation of life resources in the Ocean and for development of the fisheries-related regions. There is only one reason for such tough statements from my side – in all the latest years Russia steadily looses its marine biological resources and being the citizen and the patriot of my country I cannon and I do not want to just cope with it.