The Ministry of Agriculture proposes to limit the production of halibut in Russia

The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia has prepared a draft order limiting the commercial and coastal fishing of arrowtooth halibut, white-haired and black halibut for three months in the Far Eastern fishery basin. So, according to the document, from October 1 to December 31, 2021, industrial and coastal fishing of arrowtooth halibut, white-haired halibut and black halibut in the Sea of Okhotsk zone using bottom nets and trawls is limited, and in the West Kamchatka, Kamchatka-Kuril subzones and in the North -Okhotomorskoy subzone - with the use of longline mining tools. These restrictions are introduced on the recommendation of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography. Environmentalists also expressed concern about the decline in the halibut population off the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. So, on July 2, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) turned to the head of the Federal Agency for Fishery Ilya Shestakov. Experts pointed to a fourfold decrease in the number of ...