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As a first measure to replenish the fauna of the Caspian—a problem on which the Soviet Ichthyological Research Institute has been working for some years—Nereis, the Polychsete worm relished by the sturgeon, bream and other fish, is to be brought to this land-locked sea from the Azov. The worm will lie transported from the Azov Sea in isothermal boxes and put into the Caspian. Experiments carried out during the past three years have proved the possibility of transplanting certain species of invertebrates from the Azov to the Caspian. The Ichthyological Research Institute has decided to begin with the transplantation of Nereis, which is able to withstand changes in salinity and temperature and is unaffected by lower contents of oxygen.
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Replenishing the Fauna of the Caspian. Nature 146, 714–715 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146714d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146714d0