Estonia's Minister of Rural Life, Urmas Kruuse, has imposed a ban on pike perch fishing in Lake Peipsi, Tepliy and Pskov, effective from Wednesday, due to the quota for the first half of the year being nearly exhausted. The ban will be in place until early July. This is the second year in a row that the quota for pike perch in these lakes has been exhausted within a month, leading to the need for restrictions. The order is in line with a government directive from November 2020, which sets the permissible catch for pike perch in these lakes at 283 tons for the first half of the year.