Vladimir Aheyets, Vladimir Kostousov, Svetlana Banina, Olga Martsul
Belarus fishing industry: Development prospects
The article considers the general state and role of RUE «Fish Industry Institute» in the Republic of Belarus. Highlighted are problems of scientific support of the industry in the areas of breeding, fish feed production, prevention and treatment of fish diseases, development and improvement of fish farming technologies, expanding the range of fish species grown, studying and using natural reservoirs.

Natallia Minakova
Carp is the heritage of our country
Interview with Viktor Askerko, Director General of the State Association for Land Reclamation, Water and Fisheries «Belvodkhoz», about the main tasks of the fishery industry in Belarus.

Galina Voronova, Oksana Tavrykina, Olga Martsul
Ecological aspects of fish farming
The article gives a review of ways to green fish farming in pond farms. It is shown that the most effective methods are those that allow the use of biological resources of the pond, reducing the nutrient load through the use of microbial preparations and phytoremediation.

Vladimir Aheyets, Zhanna Koshak
Quality combined feed = healthy fish = environmentally friendly products
RUE «Fish Industry Institute» of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has developed the fish hydrolyzate, which is intended to replace imported fishmeal by 10–15%, and to reduce the cost of domestic feed by 7–10%. A new mixed-feed «Mix-Korm» has been developed for the prophylaxis and treatment of bacterial infections of cyprinids.

Alexei Poletaev, Victor Rizevsky
How to recognize a fish? The electronic fish identification key development in Belarus
The authors justify the importance of free-for-all full actual identification key for fish in Belarus. The present fish identification keys in Belarus have become outdated due to changes in the country’s ichthyofauna, extinction of some species, emergence of new non-indigenous species and registration of indigenous species haven’t detected before.

Sviatlana Dziahtsiaryk, Olga Martsul
Diseases are «pitfalls» of fish farming
The article provides a general analysis of fish diseases in the republic: the main causes of the development and spread of fish diseases are shown, the connection between ichthyopathology and other areas of fish science and practice is stated.

Karyna Kantar
Bacto-health: probiotic preparation for the bacterial diseases of valuable fish species prevention and treatment
The author substantiates the utility value of the new probiotic preparation Bacto-health for the prevention and treatment of valuable fish species bacterial diseases.

Vladimir Kostousov, Vladimir Koltunov
Eel: Will the fish-phenomenon still remain?
The article gives information on the eel catch and dynamics in the Republic of Belarus. The factors determining the dynamics of commercial eel-fishing were analysed and the eel resources were assessed. By the example of Nescherdo lake, the estimation of the annual stock and the residual population size has been made, which allows to predict the operation of the generation period and the amount of possible catch.

Natallia Minakova
Fish for health
In an interview with Irina Pochitskaya, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, the Head of the Republican control-testing complex on foodstuffs quality and safety at the Scientific-Production Centre for Foodstuffs of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the value of fish products and the need to include them in the diet of Belarusians are discussed.

Alena Prasniakova
The contribution of high-tech industries to the sustainable development of Belarus
The article considers the contribution of high-tech industries to the formation of the added value of the manufacturing industry in the world.

Ruslan Dovnar, Valentina Kovrei
Innovation development medicine using the PPP mechanism as an institutional external
In the article, the authors substantiated the need to use the model of public-private partnership to stimulate the mechanisms of healthcare development in the Republic of Belarus.

Irina Abelskaya, Yuri Slobodin, Tatyana Kaminskaya, Sergey Koleshko, Olga Nikonova
Organization of postgraduate simulation training
The article considers the simulation centre operating at the Republican Clinical Medical Centre of the Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Belarus which offers a wide range of relevant educational programs.

Iryna Yemelyanovich
Interactive collaboration transforming traditional relationships
Interview with the General Director of the Joint Institute of Informatics Problems, NAS of Belarus, corresponding member Alexander Tuzikov on the development of industry and regional informatization in our country.

Eleanora Lutokhina
Motivational «thresholds» on the path to digital economy
The article considers the motivational «thresholds» in digital transformation, gives a synergistic interpretation of the personnel’s innovative activity, identifies the «thresholds» in motivation, as well as the features of the modern system of motivational management.

Alexander Yanovsky
Taking into account the crops lodging during unmanned harvesting
The research results on lodging mapping, winter wheat taken as an example, using open remote sensing data are presented.

Alexander Ermishin, Elena Voronkova
A new paradigm for potato growing and breeding
The authors presented the collection of primary digaploids of potato cultivars, diploid breeding lines based on cultivated potatoes and interspecific hybrids with high resistance to late blight, have developed effective diploid lines donating fertility and self-compatibility.

Zhanna Komarova
Labor wins
The subject matter of the talk with the corresponding member, Head of the Department «Technology and catering», Mogilev State Food University Zoya Vasilenko was personnel training for the food industry and development of technologies and recipes.

Alexander Grusha
Klimenty Gurvich: at the origins of the organization of a scientific library
The article considers the professional activity of the second head of the library of the Institute of Belarusian Culture (Inbelkult) and the first head of the library of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences K. I. Gurvich.

Ina Narkevich
Belarusian icon as the embodiment of the historical and spiritual fortune of the people
The article considers the unique Belarusian school of icon painting and the most distinctive features of its works.

Tatyana Lipinskaya, Elena Gayduchenko, Victoria Golovenchik, Vitaliy Semenchenko
Up-to-date DNA technologies for surface water bioindication
The article considers the latest surface water bioindication method used in the world and tested in Belarus, which is based on the environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding. The authors discussed the issues of the formation and completion of DNA barcode reference library for indicator species of aquatic organisms that are required for a representative analysis of the obtained data using eDNA-metabarcoding.