Within the statutory activity four main research projects are currently conducted:

1. Selection and investigations on genetic basis of fish improving
2. Optimisation of fish culture technology in ponds and in controlled conditions
3. Modelling the elements of biotechnology and environmental conditions of carp culture
   
4. Investigations on multidisciplinary interaction between fishpond complexes and environment

Apart from the above problems another also were carried out in the Institute. Among them the most important are:

• assessment of species compositions of plant and animal communities in ponds
• studies of the metabolic conversation in pond ecosystems, the chemical and biological processes depending on fish production
• development of a model of growth, productivity, and survival rate of carp elaboration of rules and methods pond fertilisation
• studies on the possibility of treating beet-sugar wastes used as fertilisers in ponds
• a study on the biotechnology of intensive commercial carp farming and the production of one- and two- year old stocking material
• development of production technology of full-valued stabilised feeds for various species and different age classes of fish
• elaboration of methods of preventing excessive eutrophication of pond ecosystems
• studies on the technology of controlled reproduction of carp and herbivorous fish and on the energy-saving methods in fry rearing in controlled conditions
• adaptation of the biotechnology of thermophilus fish production to Polish conditions (african catfish, Clarias gariepinus and tilapia, Tilapia sp.
• development of the Polish inbred carp lines of fixed genetic and utility traits
• the establishment of live gene bank of 18 Polish and foreign inbreeding carp lines as a basis for investigations and production of heterozygous crosses
• determination of methodology in the complex characteristics of the genetic and usability of inbred lines and their crosses