20 november 2008

First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov conducted a meeting of the Government Commission on Fishery

Participants:
The meeting decided to extend the treaties that assign quotas of capelin catches earlier concluded with users.
The meeting decided to extend the treaties that assign quotas of capelin catches earlier concluded with users.

Mr Zubkov also instructed the Federal Fishery Agency, in cooperation with the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, to include an amendment regulating the distribution of the quotas of harvesting water bioresources in the event that a ban is imposed on harvesting in certain areas or for certain species of water bioresources in the second reading of Draft Law No.56060-5 On Introducing Amendments to the Federal Law on Fishery and the Preservation of Water Biological Resources.