Fines for fish and crayfish traders will increase in the Samara region, Russia

The Samara Provincial Duma plans to increase fines for fish and crayfish sellers who trade outside the places established by the authorities. They plan to toughen the punishment "because of the increased level of poaching associated with the illegal catch of crayfish," says an explanatory note to the bill. Annually, according to the information of the Srednevolzhskiy TU of the Federal Agency for Fishery, fisheries inspectors extract about 2,000 multi-pass traps from water bodies. “The fish protection authorities associate such activity of poachers with the fact that in the territory of the Samara region the sale of crayfish is organized, including in an organized manner (for example, in the markets, from cars, stalls and through advertisements on the Internet). A similar situation is observed not only with regard to crayfish, but also fish, as well as other products of fishing and fish farming ”. For the sale of crayfish and fish, citizens are now planning to be fined for 4.5 ...