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Joint Order No. 56/91 of the Federal Security Service and of the Federal Fisheries Agency validating the Regulation on passage by the Russian and foreign fishing vessels of control points.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
2010 (2011)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Marine fisheries Coastal zone management Foreign fishing Fishing vessel Harbour Navigation Fish products
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

This Joint Order establishes that control points shall be set in the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Russian Federation with a view of carrying out state control in the sphere of conservation of marine biological resources in relation to the Russian and foreign fishing vessels carrying out fisheries and/or marine resource research in the EEZ and on continental shelf of the Russian Federation. Control point shall be marine areas within the range of 2 to 3 marine miles and shall be obligatory for passage by fishing vessels in the following cases: (a) each entry to the EEZ of the Russian Federation for fisheries and research; and (b) fisheries in the EEZ and on continental shelf of the Russian Federation in case of the passage from fishing areas of Western-Bering and Eastern-Kamtchatka to the fishing area of the Okhotsk sea and vice versa. Annex 1 contains the list of control points and positions thereof. Control points shall not be obligatory for passage by fishing vessels in the following cases: (a) by Russian fishing vessels heading for Russian seaports to deliver aquatic biological resources, fish and other aquatic biological products to the customs territory of the Russian Federation; (b) Russian vessels in cases of industrial or coastal fisheries in areas from which the legislation of the Russian Federation establishes the mandatory delivery of catches of aquatic biological resources to the customs territory of the Russian Federation; and (c) by vessels in case of crossing the line of external border of an exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation on route from the Russian seaports to seaports of the foreign states after customs registration of vessels, catches of water biological resources, fish and other production.

Full text
Russian
Website
www.rg.ru

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Amended by

Joint Order No. 52/72 of the Federal Security Service and of the Federal Fisheries Agency amending Joint Order No. 56/91 of the Federal Security Service and of the Federal Fisheries Agency validating the Regulation on passage by the Russian and foreign fishing vessels of control points.

Legislation | Russian Federation | 2011

Keyword: Marine fisheries, Foreign fishing, Fishing vessel, Coastal zone management, Transshipment, Fishery management and conservation

Source: FAO, FAOLEX