The Russian Ministry of Agriculture has banned the fishing of roach in the Volga and the Caspian Sea until the end of 2025

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture has banned industrial and recreational fishing of roach in the Caspian Sea, the Volga River and its watercourses within the borders of the Astrakhan Region and water bodies within the borders of the Republic of Kalmykia until December 31, 2025. The corresponding order of the ministry was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. "To ban until December 31, 2025, industrial fishing (except for permitted bycatch in accordance with fishing rules) and recreational fishing of roach in the Caspian Sea, the Volga River and its watercourses within the borders of the Astrakhan Region and water bodies within the borders of the Republic of Kalmykia," the document says. The Ministry also banned industrial and recreational fishing for roach in water bodies in the Ikryaninsky, Kamyzyaksky, Volodarsky, Limansky, Krasnoyarsk, Narimanovsky and Privolzhsky districts within the borders of the Astrakhan Region until December 31, 2025. Earlier, ...