Is the "fish mafia" the end comes?

800,000,000 US dollars - the head of the Federal Agency for Rosrybolovy, Andrei, is estimated at this amount, the annual prey of poachers in the Far Eastern waters.

It is likely that soon the revenues of the “fish mafia” will be reduced to tens of thousands of “green”, and illegal catches will fall to hundreds of kg. “Of course, on some rocky shore, poachers will be able to unload four crab boxes from the Shalanda, but this cannot be compared with what is happening today,” the head of the department told reporters at a press conference on the occasion of the Fisherman Day.

How are the raking tentacles going to chop off the octopus?

According to Andrei extreme, the end of the marine poaching will put the introduction of certificates indicating the legality of the origin of the catch. Without this paper, it will become impossible to take seafood for export. According to the new rules, the captain of the fishing vessel is obliged to present a "certificate of legality" in the port of destination, where he will be verified with the second copy of the same document sent from Russia. Information coincided - unloading is allowed, no - it is forbidden. "This system has been working in the North Atlantic since 2008, and it is almost impossible to unload illegal products in any of the EU ports," said the head of the Federal Fisheries Agency.

“2012 We devote the signing of bilateral legal agreements with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region in order to block poaching opportunities for the delivery of fresh-frozen and live crab to their markets,” continued the extreme one. - July 24, an agreement with the Republic of Korea comes into force. The agreement with the DPRK has already undergone ratification in the Federation Council. We plan to sign a document with China, if not in July, then in August. The Japanese officially stated that they were ready to sign a similar agreement in September at the APEC summit in Vladivostok ... "

Thus, the head of the federal agency hopes, by the end of the year the certification system will be introduced in the entire Asia-Pacific region, and then those $ 800 million, into which the authorities estimate illegal catchs, will turn into tens of thousands.

"It is clear that many people do not like this, both in the countries of the Asia -Pacific region and with us. Imagine how many people are involved in criminal fishing! They are deprived of very big money! Therefore, believe me, it was worth making our colleagues abroad to go to these agreements. The official position of the governments of the neighboring countries was initially against business, Yakuza, transnational criminal groups, and The comrades from other organizations that joined them are not saying a real war with the use of all forms and methods ... So if you hear that I have found white powder, do not be surprised. ”

One of the manifestations of the undeclared war is the incident in Kamchatka. According to Andrei Extremely, a few days ago, local poachers literally attacked the department of the fish inspection, trying to return the networks and boat engines seized from them. "But we have a strong people work there - they defended material evidence!" True, not always such skirmishes end without loss. In the same Kamchatka, three battered fish inspectors went to the hospital.

Oddly enough, employees of the Federal Agency for Rosrybolovy have nothing to protect themselves, except for the form and red certificate, but the situation will change soon. “We are looking forward to the release of the Decree of the Government of Russia, which will allow us to arm inspectors, as it was before 2004,” the extreme said. “We hope this will happen within a month -semi -whip.”

In addition to pistols and machine guns, 582 units of vehicles and 58 motor boats will receive defenders of aquatic biological resources. It is expected that soon the number of fishing officers themselves will also increase noticeably: from the current three thousand people to four and a half thousand. “Today it is impossible to resist the rampart of poaching, when hundreds of kilometers and thousands of hectares of the water surface occur for each inspector,” the head of the headlights complained.

Among other positive news, about which Andrei extremely told reporters, such.

Since the beginning of the year, Russian fishermen have obtained 2 million 63 thousand tons of aquatic biological resources, which is 3.5 thousand tons more than the catch over the same period last year. Touching on the topic of processing seafood, he reported on the upcoming construction on the southern Kurils of eight private fishing plants. Investments will amount to about 5 billion rubles.

In Sakhalin, 11 state fish -breeding plants will be transferred to private companies to private companies, and 250 million rubles, which were released as a result, will be aimed at supporting the sturgeon population in the Caspian Sea. According to the extreme, there is a possibility that if all the Caspian states will join the moratorium on the deposits of sturgeon in the Caspian in 2002, then somewhere in five years there will be possible to resume industrial fishing of particularly valuable fish.

To my fairly provocative question: when will the sturgeons in the Amur resume? - The head of Rosrybolovy answered unexpectedly: "I believe that Kaluga can be caught today, however, in limited quantities. According to science, there is a fish in the Amur." However, in the field, not everyone agrees with this. Among the opponents of the legal catch of sturgeon, Andrei, the extreme called poachers, who already catch that they wish, but they do not need competition in water expanses.

Speaking about the prospects of industrial fish farming, the extreme called the "very sad" situation in this area. It turns out that in terms of commodity cultivation of fish, Russia occupies 19th place in the world with the volume of production of finished products of 140 thousand tons. For comparison: the rating leader China annually grows 42 million tons of fish, and the indonesia occupying the second line - 3.7 million tons. In general, we have someone to equal.

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