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Order No. 356 of the Federal Fisheries Committee validating the Regulation on the Department of conservation and stock enhancement of fish stocks and fisheries regulation posted under the jurisdiction of the Federal Fisheries Committee.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
2003
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Institution EEZ-Exclusive Economic Zone Territorial sea Continental shelf Stock enhancement/repopulation Inspection Artisanal fishing Aquatic animals Aquatic plants Marine fishes Freshwater fishes Fishery management and conservation Maritime zone
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

The Department of conservation and stock enhancement of fish stocks and fisheries regulation is a structural subdivision of the Federal Fisheries Committee and shall carry out its tasks either autonomously or jointly with other federal state institutions that make part of the common system of fishing inspection. The main tasks and functions of the Department are: 1) participation in the elaboration and carrying out state policy in the sphere of rational use of fishes, aquatic animals and aquatic plants, conservation and stock enhancement thereof in surface water bodies, territorial sea, EEZ and the continental shelf of the Russian Federation and also in the areas of the World Ocean outside the EEZ of the Russian Federation; 2) to carry out the state supervision in the sphere of protection of aquatic biological resources and their natural habitats; 3) to ensure conservation and rational, inexhaustible use of aquatic biological resources, conservation of biological diversity; 4) regulation of sport and artisanal fishing; 5) organization and planning of artificial repopulation of the fish stocks, carrying out the state inspection over quality and quantity of fish farming products released in the surface water bodies of the Russian Federation by fish farming enterprises of all forms of property.

Full text
Russian
Website
www.dalryba.vladivostok.ru