Commercial and non commercial fish species of the Lipetsk region rivers

The list and fish assemblage species structure of 13 rivers of the Lipetsk region were analyzed. Classi-fication of the fish fauna from the viewpoint of fishery and nature protection was made for the working out of the concept of rational nature management. Important protected and threatened species was found in the Lipetsk area. It is established that not all species included in the regional Red Data Book correspond to their real nature protection status.