Organization of development work proposals for amendments to the fisheries rules

Abstract

The article discusses changes in the procedure for organizing work on the development of proposals for amendments to the rules of fishing in accordance with the order of the Federal Agency for Fisheries dated February 18, 2020 No. 85 “On the organization of work in the Federal Agency for Fisheries on the development of proposals for amendments to the rules of fishing”. It is noted that the peculiarity of the fishing rules as a regulatory document is the possibility of prompt amendments to them aimed at forming an optimal fishing regime that ensures the stability of commercial catches and the conservation of aquatic biological resources. The algorithm for making changes is clearly spelled out: sending proposals from state authorities, organizations, public associations, citizens to the territorial administration of Rosrybolovstvo, making proposals in tabular form with the position of the territorial administration, considering proposals at meetings of the biological section of the Scientific Council of the Fisheries Research Institute, reviewing and coordinating proposals with the structural divisions of Rosrybolovstvo, preparation of the draft order by the Ministry of Agriculture and further approval procedure and approval in the form prescribed by law. A prerequisite for the approval procedure for proposals received to amend the rules of fishing is their scientific analysis, which allows, even at the stage of working out the issue, to filter out proposals that do not take into account the norms of the current fisheries legislation or negatively affect aquatic biological resources. The proposed version of the order allows at all stages of the preparation of amendments to the rules of fishing to take into account the interests of all interested parties as much as possible: scientific organizations, regulatory structures, citizens, authorities, the tourism industry.