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The materials on the retrospective and current catch of marine fish species in the Far Eastern region are presented. In the Far Eastern seas, from 3.0 to 3.4 million tons of LMR are captured, constituting more than 2/3 of the total Russian catch. In 2019, the catch of commercial fishes, for which the TAC is set, amounted to 2.3 million tons. The catch structure is dominated by walleye Pollock (75%), herring (11%), cod (6%), and flounder (3 %), saffron cod (2.5%). The catch of non-quota species in the region amounted to 354.6 thousand tons. The most important species in the 2019 were Japanese sardine (37%), herring (35%), mackerel (10%), gobies (8%), flounder (5%) and rays (2%). The analysis of the current state of the resource base in the Far Eastern region shows good prospects for national fishery.

The paper analyzes the long-term dynamics of stocks and annual catches of Pacific cod of the Kuril Islands, and also considers the structure of its modern fishery, taking into account the changes that have occurred in the organization of its coastal fishing in recent years. It was shown that the dynamics of commercial biomass of Pacific cod in the Northern and Southern Kuril Islands is comparable to that in 1975-2020 for groups in the southeastern part of the Bering Sea, the Karagin and Olyutor bays, on the shelf of Western Kamchatka, and in south-western Sakhalin. Development of the cod fishery in the North and South Kuril Islands in 1980-2019 went in accordance with the dynamics of stocks, the maximum catches were observed during the period of a high level of abundance of both groups in the 1980s. While the structure of the cod fishery on the shelf of the Northern Kuril Islands to date can be considered established, the development of fishing in the South Kuril Islands in the last two decades went by the gradual replacement of trawl fishing in the winter-spring period with snorkeling in the summer season.