Romania bans wild sturgeon fishing indefinitely

Published Jun 18, 2021

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The article highlights the significant threat to sturgeon survival in the Lower Danube basin due to poaching and the illegal trade of caviar and wild sturgeon meat, despite existing prohibitions in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has conducted a survey confirming widespread illegal activities. In response, WWF-Central and Eastern Europe (WWF-CEE) is implementing projects like MEASURES and SWIPE to combat poaching, create ecological corridors, protect sturgeon habitats, and enhance law enforcement and prosecution of wildlife crimes. These initiatives aim to ensure the survival of sturgeon species by advocating for an integrated, fair approach that includes community involvement, conservation efforts, and stricter enforcement of fishing regulations.

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An integrated and fair approach means working with fishing communities from communication, to involvement in conservation activities and alternative solutions to lost income, better law enforcement, proper research and monitoring, maintaining migration routes, and last but not least, awareness of sturgeon products consumers in terms of their legality,” Cristina Munteanu, the coordinator of the Save Danube Sturgeons Life Natura Project, WWF-Romania, said. "Sturgeons are long-lived species and take decades to recover from their critical status. A fishing ban without the previous five-year limitation is the right step forward," Beate Striebel, WWFs Sturgeon Initiative Lead, said. According to the sturgeon market survey conducted by WWF in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine in 2016-2020, poaching and the illegal market for caviar and wild sturgeon meat are among the most serious threats to sturgeon survival in the Lower Danube basin. Although fishing and selling wild sturgeon (and ...

Source: Agroberichtenbuitenland