Order No. 690 of the Ministry of Agriculture validating the Regulation on the performance of fishery amelioration. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 2021 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Fisheries Keyword Fishery management and conservation Aquaculture Stock enhancement/repopulation Aquatic plants Waterworks 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 Regulation on the performance of fishery amelioration establishes that fishery amelioration arrangements are measures to improve indicators of the hydrological, hydrogeochemical, ecological state of waterbodies in order to create conditions for the conservation and rational use of aquatic biological resources, as well as ensuring the aquaculture production. Fishery amelioration can be carried out in the process of performance of the following arrangements: (a) carrying out dredging and (or) works to extract the bottom soil; (b) removal of aquatic plants from a waterbody; (c) c) creation of artificial reefs, bottom landscapes in order to improve ecological state of the waterbody, as well as channels providing free passage of aquatic biological resources to spawning grounds; (d) withdrawal of predatory species and low-value species of aquatic biological resources; (e) clearing channels, estuaries and riverbeds, as well as water supply and waste discharge channels; and (f) release of herbivorous fish species into fishery waterbodies. Fishery amelioration in order to create conditions for conservation and rational use of aquatic biological resources is carried out by legal persons, citizens, including individual entrepreneurs and bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Full text Russian Website fish.gov.ru References - Legislation Repeals Order No. 530 of the Ministry of Agriculture validating the Regulation on amelioration of water bodies for fishfarming purposes. Legislation | Russian Federation | 2014 Keyword: Aquaculture, Fishery management and conservation, Surface water, Drainage/land reclamation, Sustainable development Source: FAO, FAOLEX