Based on the analysis of literary sources on the history of fishing in rivers and reservoirs of Russia for the XX and the beginning of the XXI century, the characteristics of the current state of sterlet stocks by subjects in individual fisheries basins are given. The main reasons for the decrease in sterlet catches for the Volga basin are hydro–construction, for the rivers of Siberia – poaching. As a result of re-climatization measures and mass stocking of young sterlet by the 20s of the XXI century, «factory» populations of commercial sterlet were formed in individual reservoirs and rivers of the European part of the country.
Bykov et al. (2022) studied this question.