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Order No. 409 of the Federal Fisheries Committee validating the Regulation on Federal Institution “The North-Western basin institution on protection, conservation and repopulation of fish stocks and regulation of fisheries”.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
2002
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Institution Marine fisheries Artisanal fishing Non-commercial fishing Aquatic plants Aquatic animals
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

Federal Institution “The North-Western basin institution on protection, conservation and repopulation of fish stocks and regulation of fisheries” is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Fisheries Committee. It is authorized within the limits of the proper authority to carry out regulation of fisheries, management and conservation of aquatic biological resources and the natural habitats thereof (fishes, aquatic animals and aquatic plants) in the water bodies of St.Petersburg, Leningrad, Vologda, Pskov and Novgorod regions in the Baltic sea and fishing areas covered by the international conventions. The main tasks of the Federal Institution include carrying out common state policy in the sphere of the rational use of aquatic biological resources, conservation and repopulation thereof, ensuring state protection and inexhaustible use of aquatic biological diversity, its national habitats and conservation of biological diversity, regulation of industrial fisheries, artisanal and sport fishing, assistance to the development of the organizational forms thereof.

Full text
Russian
Website
www.gkr.ru