Mobile groups for the protection of aquatic biological resources during the spring spawning of fish have been created in the region

During the spring fishing ban, which will begin to operate on a number of reservoirs in the region from April 20, measures to curb illegal fishing will be strengthened many times over. Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Agriculture of the Novosibirsk Region Yevgeny Leshchenko held a meeting with representatives of all bodies and structures involved in the protection of aquatic biological resources.
“During the period of spring spawning of fish, the protection of aquatic biological resources is more relevant than ever, because the future state of commercial stocks and the possibility of their use both for business purposes, in the implementation of industrial fishing, and for personal consumption in recreational fishing depend on the safety of fish during this period,” noted Evgeny Leshchenko. - Last year, on the eve of the introduction of the spring ban on fishing, we also met, developed joint measures for fish protection, and as a result of our consolidated work: there were much fewer cases of barbaric attitude towards aquatic biological resources. This is an indicator of the effectiveness of the joint activities carried out.”
According to the information of the Verkhneobsky Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Fishery, it is planned to use 23 vehicles and 21 watercraft to carry out control and supervisory activities on the reservoirs of the region during the period of restrictions on fishing.
In addition, special equipment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of RUSSIA will be involved in joint raid activities with police officers, which will make it possible to carry out field operations teams in the shortest possible time to prevent illegal actions. Together with the traffic police, vehicles will be checked on the roads in known and newly identified places of transportation of illegally harvested aquatic biological resources.
The public will also be involved in the events: along with state inspectors, more than 40 freelance public inspectors will participate in the protection of aquatic biological resources. Representatives of the Novosibirsk Separate Cossack Society are also ready to join this work.
Temporary operational headquarters are being created on the basis of the administrations of several municipal districts, 12 mobile operational groups have been formed, equipped with cars and motor boats, as well as photo and video recording equipment.
The Department of Veterinary Medicine of the region will strengthen the remote analysis of the execution of veterinary accompanying documents for the production of products from aquatic biological resources. The Ministry of Natural Resources of the NSO, together with the police and social activists, will take measures to suppress offenses in the field of environmental management, including in terms of unauthorized disposal of production and consumption waste in the water protection zones of water bodies and wastewater discharges into the region's water bodies.
Among the measures that could increase the safety of aquatic biological resources during the spring spawning period, the meeting participants named an increase in the number of inspectors and stationary fish protection posts in the Chano-Baraba lake-river zone, in particular in the vicinity of the village. Tagan, on the Kargat and Chulym rivers, and intensification of raiding activities against legal entities and individual entrepreneurs that harvest gammarids and other aquatic invertebrates.
Yevgeny Leshchenko also called the expansion of mass explanatory work with the population necessary for the implementation of all participants in the meeting. Residents of the region, and most importantly, amateur fishermen, should have full access to information about the timing and locations of the introduction of temporary spring restrictions on fishing, as well as methods for prompt communication with inspectors in case of detection of persons causing damage to aquatic biological resources of our region.