Caspian countries extend ban on commercial sturgeon fishing until 2025

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 ...