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The government commission on legislative activities approved a ban on industrial and coastal fishing of cetaceans – whales, dolphins and porpoises. About it informs press service of Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko.
The ban is stipulated by amendments to the Federal Laws “On the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Russian Federation” and “On Fishing and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources.” As noted by Abramchenko, such a legislative initiative is a logical continuation of the government’s actions in relation to normative legal regulation of the peculiarities of the extraction and use of marine mammals.
The changes also establish a stricter regime for regulating the fishing of marine mammals, up to the prohibition of the catch of certain species.
In 2018, about a hundred belugas and killer whales were caught in the Sea of Okhotsk for sale to Chinese aquariums. 11 killer whales and 90 belugas were placed in open-air cages in Srednyaya Bay near Nakhodka. Animal rights activists called this place a “whale prison”. After public intervention, it turned out that the animals were caught in violation of the law. Criminal and administrative cases were initiated. By November 2019, the animals were released.
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