Order No. 167 of the Ministry of Agriculture validating the Methodology for calculating the amount of damage caused to aquatic biological resources. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 2020 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Fisheries Keyword Fishery management and conservation Offences/penalties Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings 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 Entry into force notes This Order enters into force six months after the date of its official publication. Abstract This Methodology determines the procedure for calculating the amount of damage caused to aquatic biological resources as a result of violation of the legislation on fishing and conservation of aquatic biological resources. This Methodology is used to calculate the amount of harm caused to aquatic biological resources as a result of: (a) establishing facts of violation of legislation on fishing and conservation of aquatic biological resources and legislation in the field of environmental protection that affect the state of aquatic biological resources and their habitat up to the loss of their commercial value, reduction in the area of spawning grounds of aquatic biological resources and habitats of small fry and a decrease in the efficiency of natural reproduction of aquatic biological resources, as well as those which led to the death of aquatic biological resources, including a decrease in the live weight of aquatic biological resources obtained per unit area of a water reservoir during the growing season, also in the course of economic and other activities; and (b) deviations from projects of economic and other activities agreed by the Federal Agency for Fisheries that resulted in changes in the indicators (size, degree, duration) of the negative impact on aquatic biological resources and their habitat (both at the construction stage and at the stage of operation of objects of economic and other activities). The amount of damage caused to aquatic biological resources is calculated by the Federal Agency for Fisheries (and its territorial bodies), federal state budgetary institutions, research organizations subordinated to the Federal Agency for Fisheries. Full text Russian Website publication.pravo.gov.ru