Ministerial Decree No. 640 validating the Regulation on allocation of quotas for coastal fisheries in the internal sea, territorial sea between the coastal regions of the Russian Federation.

This Ministerial Decree establishes that the Federal Fisheries Agency shall submit annually by 5 December to the Ministry of Agriculture draft allocation of quotas with the consideration of the proposals of the basin fisheries institutions. The Ministry of Agriculture shall validate the allocation of quotas by 15 December of the current year. In the process of the elaboration of quotas the following criteria must be taken into consideration: (a) amount of marketable fish stock available; (b) ava