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Minister: â€œAzerbaijan completely suspended sturgeon fishingâ€

25 November 2011 12:14 (UTC +04:00)

Gabala. Habil Suleymanzadeh â€“ APA. â€œAzerbaijan completely suspended sturgeon fishing. We will be happy if other countries also join our initiativeâ€, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Huseyn Bagirov said, APA reports. Touching upon the initiative of moratorium on Caspian sturgeon fishing, Bagirov said only Azerbaijan and Russia among the Caspian littoral states made efforts to protect sturgeon species. He said he hoped that other Caspian littoral states would join this initiative in the near future. â€œUnfortunately, despite the initiative by the leaders of the Caspian littoral states, there has been no five-part agreement on this issue yetâ€.

Minister said illegal sturgeon fishing was continued in Azerbaijan and they were struggling with this problem. He said Azerbaijan was also growing sturgeon species in the special farms.

Bagirov said sturgeon sold in the Azerbaijani markets was mostly imported from Russia.