Caspian littoral countries have extended the moratorium on sturgeon fishing until 2023

Caspian littoral countries have extended the moratorium on sturgeon fishing until 2023
Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran extended the ban on commercial fishing of sturgeon until 2023 at the meeting of the commission on the protection and efficient use of water bioresources and the management of resources of the Caspian Sea.

Qazet.az reports with reference to "Interfax" that the Federal Agency for Fisheries of Russia has released information about this.

Sturgeon fishing will be possible, as before, only for research purposes and artificial reproduction.

It should be noted that the commission was established by the representatives of the Caspian countries based on the agreement signed in September 2014 in Astrakhan. In the spring of 2016, the document was ratified and entered into force in all participating countries. The treaty provides that the decisions of the commission may be binding on the member states. The first meeting of the commission was held in Baku at the end of November 2017.

The maximum indicators of sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea basin were 39.4 thousand tons at the beginning of the 20th century and 27.4 thousand tons at the end of the 70s of the last century. Starting from 1991, a sharp decrease in the number of sturgeon fish was recorded.