Amur without a cupid

Spinning, a couple of overwhelmingants and all sorts of hooks-shines prepared by me for summer fishing on the Amur, turned out to be a waste of money. Today, the Annunciation fisherman-amateur will not even delight his cat with a couple of pancakes the size of a little finger. And involuntarily a doubt creeps in: did the fish remained in the Amur?

Coastal work, both from the Russian Blagoveshchensk and from the Chinese Heihe, over the past decade have changed the width of the Amur, the speed of the current and the depth of the river. Thus, many places of spawning of fish were destroyed. The reduction of the fishing number of Amur, alas, was a fee for the construction of antipartum structures.

So does it make sense to limit fish fishing on our shore, when from the Chinese coast the same fish can be caught freely, and even almost impunity to engage in poaching on our shore

At the beginning of the last century, Keta and Gorbush rose to spawning to Blagoveshchensk. In addition, Amur-Batyushka fed the Annunciation of river fish of several dozen breeds. Today, those blessed times can only be read in historical books. And the specimens of fish such breeds as the Chinese perch-ahuha, the Amur White and Black, the Gothic, the Sudak and the Tolstoil, now you can see only at the stand of the Amur Regional Museum of Local Lore.

At the same time, in the neighboring Chinese Heihe, the fish diversity of the cupid can not only be seen, but also taste. In this Chinese city there is a street fish market where many breeds of Amur fish are laid out for sale.

What is she, a fish, makes it possible only to the Chinese coast of the Amur? No, the fish on the Russian side of the Amur also remained. Just the Chinese catch it in an industrial way - nets from boats. And on our fishing rods, amateur fishermen. The inhabitants of the Russian Amur villages almost had no motor boats. The border regime requires so many permits and approvals that fishing out on a boat is almost impossible, especially at night. The Chinese have a private small fleet on the Amur. And at the same time, the Chinese also regularly violate the state border in order to put their networks near our shore. Google on request: "Chinese fishermen violated the border," and make sure that.

Recently, according to the tape of news agencies, the report that the Chinese fishermen caught in the Kalugu Amur weighing about 500 kilograms and a length of 3.5 meters. Experts say that this Kaluga by age can be the same age of Blagoveshchensk, 162 from the founding of which we just noted.

Chinese friends, let me explain, because this endangered sturgeon breed, living only in the Amur, is entered in the International Red Book and in the Red Book of Russia. For the capture of such an individual, the Russian fisherman, according to the laws of Russia, would have to pay a huge fine or even lose freedom for several years. It turns out that in the PRC, Amur sturgeons are permitted under a state license. In the same street fish market in Heihe, you can always see Kalug just caught.

The Russian coast of the Amur is a kind of fish reserve, a passage into which is closed to Russian fishermen. So does it make sense to limit fish fishing on our shore, when from the Chinese coast the same fish can be caught freely, and even to engage in poaching on our shore? Maybe it's time to give relief in border mode and for Russian fishermen, to revive fishing artels in the Russian Amur Region? Still, it’s a shame-to live on the Amur and cook the ear from the imported polish of deep freezing.

Evgeny Goncharov - Annunciation writer

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