Caspian countries extend ban on commercial sturgeon fishing until 2025

The Caspian countries have extended the ban on commercial sturgeon fishing until 2025 and will not set export quotas for caviar and sturgeon fish for 2025. The fishing next year will be carried out only for scientific research and artificial reproduction. In 2023, Russian enterprises released 34.5 million young sturgeons into the Caspian Sea. The Commission for the Conservation, Rational Use of Aquatic Bioresources of the Caspian Sea and the Management of Their Joint Stocks was created in 2014 and provides binding decisions for the participating states.

Moscow. December 20. INTERFAX.RU - The Caspian countries have extended the ban on commercial sturgeon fishing until 2025, Rosrybolovstvo reported after the 8th session of the commission on the conservation, rational use of aquatic biological resources of the Caspian Sea and the management of their joint stocks, which was held in Astrakhan. Representatives of all Caspian states took part in it: Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. "The parties agreed to extend the ban on commercial sturgeon fishing until 2025 and not to set export quotas for caviar and sturgeon fish for 2025. Sturgeon fishing next year, as before, will be carried out only for the purposes of scientific research and artificial reproduction," the report says. Rosrybolovstvo also reported that in 2023, Russian enterprises released 34.5 million young sturgeons into the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan - 1.9 million, and Azerbaijan - 618.7 thousand. The Commission for the Conservation, Rational Use of Aquatic ...