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Russia to experiment fishing guided by the Space Station

Fishing, another task for Russian cosmonauts

Russian cosmonauts working at the International Space Station will help the country’s fishing fleet to detect fish schools and other resources in oceans according to the Russian Space Flights Control Centre (SFCC).

“Next Sunday we will he holding an experiment at the ISS during which the cosmonauts will help vessels from the Russian Federal Fisheries agency to locate new catch zones in the different oceans”, according to a report from the Interfax news agency quoting a SFCC spokesperson.

The experiment which has been planned at the Oceanography Institute from the Russian Sciences Academy and SFCC will be undertaken by Russian cosmonauts Guennadi Padalka and Poman Romanenko, currently members of the standing international crew at the ISS.

Padalka and Romanenko will “basically take pictures and tape on video sectors of oceans which differ in colour, structure and contrast, and transmit to Earth the coordinates and graphics”, said the spokes person.

The planners of the experiment hope to be able to track fish migrations, fisheries and establish areas with greater abundance thus helping increase the volume of caches.