Innovations and digital transformation of the Russian fishery complex

Digital technologies are consistently entering the practice of various industries, forming a knowledge society of the future. The fishery complex of Russia is also gradually increasing the number of digital technologies used. Lots of innovations in the fisheries sector are based on technological approaches of the digital economy. The aim of the work is to determine the prospects for the transition of the Russian fishery complex to a model of innovative development based on the principles of the digital economy. For this, it is necessary to consider the key features of the digital economy that can influence the activities of the fisheries complex, establish the main aspects of the digital transformation process and formulate promising directions and forms of introducing the digital economy in the complex. Methods of system analysis were used, as well as agent modeling based on the description of the fishing industry as a set of active objects (agents) that are guided by a set of rules of interaction in the economic environment for the goal of the work achievement. The hypothesis that digitalization is part of the processes of informatization taking place in modern society can take into account the peculiarities of various features of the diversified complex. It allows us to apply a wide range of methods to the specific features of various types of economic activity included in the fishery complex. The study revealed that the digitalization process in the fishery complex is based on the introduction of equipment that uses digital technologies as well as business-models and methods related to them. The key factors in this are technological development and changes in human capital.