The ban on crayfish fishing in Ukraine’s water bodies, which had been in effect since the end of last year, has ended, the State Fisheries Agency’s press service reported on Wednesday.
“The lifting of the ban on crayfish fishing is a long-awaited event for many fishing enthusiasts. However, when heading to a body of water, please remember to treat river inhabitants with respect and strictly comply with environmental protection laws,” the press service quoted agency head Ihor Klymenko as saying.
As noted in the statement, each person is allowed to catch no more than 30 crayfish. Crayfish may be caught by hand or using a single crayfish trap meeting the specified parameters, a landing net, or a “spider” trap in accordance with the requirements of the Recreational Fishing Rules.
At the same time, it is prohibited to catch crayfish by hand after dark using artificial lighting.
The minimum size of crayfish permitted for catch is 11 cm in the Dnipro reservoirs, 10 cm in other inland water bodies and the Black Sea region, and 9 cm in the Azov region.
Illegal crayfish harvesting is subject to administrative or criminal liability, as well as compensation for damages to the fisheries sector. Compensation for each illegally caught crayfish amounts to 3,332 UAH.
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The catch of fish and other aquatic biological resources by fisheries of Ukraine in January-April 2021 increased by 4.8% compared to January-April 2020, to 23,210 tonnes, of which ocean catch on the territory of other states increased by 11%, to 18,280 tonnes.
According to a press release of the State Fisheries Agency of Ukraine on Tuesday, during the specified period, the catch of fish and other aquatic biological resources increased in the reservoirs of the Dnipro River by 9%, to 988 tonnes, the Azov Sea – 827 tonnes (more by 48%), the Danube River – 325 tonnes (more by 70%), the Black Sea – 300 tonnes (more by 41%), and the Dnipro-Bug Canal – 174 tonnes (more by 22%).
The State Fisheries Agency said that industrial fisheries caught 497 tonnes of aquatic biological resources in the lower reaches of the Dniester River with the estuary and the Kuchurhan reservoir and 10 tonnes of aquatic biological resources were caught in the Black Sea estuaries.
The agency said that special fisheries combining elements of aquaculture and industrial fish catch operate in Ukrainian lakes and water reservoirs, which have caught 1,100 tonnes of aquatic biological resources in the first four months of 2021, which is 32.4% less than in the first four months of 2020.
