Turkmenistan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Iran have extended the moratorium on sturgeon fishing for 2023, reports TASS with reference to the press service of the Federal Agency for Fisheries.
“At a meeting of the 6th session of the Commission for the Conservation and Rational Use of Aquatic Biological Resources and the Management of Their Joint Stocks of the Caspian Sea, representatives of the Caspian Five agreed to extend the ban on commercial fishing for sturgeon species for 2023 and not set export quotas for black caviar in 2023.
The catch of sturgeon species in 2023, as before, is planned to be carried out only for research purposes and for the purpose of artificial reproduction”, the report says.
It is noted that in 2014 an agreement was signed in Astrakhan on the conservation and rational use of aquatic biological resources of the Caspian Sea.
For these purposes, a Commission was established to implement the agreement on the conservation and rational use of aquatic biological resources of the Caspian Sea dated September 29, 2014.