Regional Decree No. 519-p validating the Regulation on recreational fishing. Pays/Territoire Fédération de Russie Sous-division territoriale Yaroslavl Type du document Règlement Date 2020 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Pêche Mot clé Gestion et conservation des pêches Pêche continentale Pêche non-commerciale Santé publique Engins de pêche/méthodes de pêche Risques Restrictions à l'utilisation Évaluation/gestion des risques Aire géographique Arctique, Asie et Pacifique, Mer Noire, Mer Caspienne, CEI (Communauté des États indépendants), Europe de l'Est, Europe, Europe et Asie Centrale, Pacifique Nord, Pacifique Nord Occidental Entry into force notes This Regional Decree enters into force ten days after the date of its official publication. Résumé This Regional Decree establishes that regulation of recreational fishing is carried out in order to preserve aquatic biological resources, their rational use and maintaining the most sustainable productivity, as well as preventing a risk to the life and health of citizens. Regulation of recreational fishing is carried out on the basis of orders adopted by the regional Department of Agro-Industrial Complex and Consumer Market and agreed with the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. The grounds for the authorized body to take a decision on the regulation of recreational fishing are the following cases: (a) risk of a natural emergency; (b) the actual change in the timing of spawning and periods of reproduction of aquatic biological resources, on the basis of which the rules of recreational fishing envisage application of restrictions on recreational fishing; and (c) changes in hydrochemical parameters and (or) hydrological characteristics of a waterbody of fishery significance, posing a risk to the conservation of aquatic biological resources, as well as to human life and health. Recreational fishing regulation measures include: (a) establishing a ban on fishing in certain areas and in relation to certain types of aquatic biological resources; (b) closure of fishing in certain areas and in relation to certain types of aquatic biological resources; (c) changes in the minimum size and weight of harvested (caught) aquatic biological resources; (d) establishment of the type and quantity of permitted, as well as prohibited, tools and methods of extraction (catching) of aquatic biological resources; (e) establishment of the size and design of tools for the extraction (catch) of aquatic biological resources; (f) change in the daily rate of extraction (catch) of aquatic biological resources (quantity, weight) of a certain type, permitted to a citizen for extraction (catch) in the course of recreational fishing; and (g) change of forbidden terms of extraction (catch) of aquatic biological resources for the period of spawning. Texte intégral Russe Site web onlineecology.com