Aral bream

Fishery in the delta and foreshore delta of the Amudarya River was based on fishing of bream, carp, roach, Cahlcalbumus, Aral barbel, asp, redeye, etc. whose share made 86% of the total fish yield in this area. 

Three species of fish gave the maximum yields, i.e., bream, carp, and roach, and they were equal to 40,23, and 13%, respectively, of the total fish yield in the delta summed they reached 73% of the total fish yields. The roach species (Cahlcalbumus, Aral barbel, asp, redeye, etc.) were of minor fishery importance. Their fish yields taken together were approximately 13% of the total fish yield in the delta [4]. 

Of the average annual fish catches reaching about 35 thousand tons the share for the Northern Aral Sea was about 40% and the Southern - about 60%. The fishing leaders were carp - about 28% of the total catch (the Aral Sea had the second highest carp catches in the USSR), bream - to 29% (third highest in the USSR), sea roach - 16%, others - 27%. 

The Aral Sea accounted for 7% of the total fishery for internal waters of the USSR. The main trade species were roach (Rutilus rutilus aralensis), sazan (Cyprinus carpio aralensis) and bream (Abramis brama orientalis). 

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