Governor’s Ordinance No. 583-r setting criteria for the distribution of quotas for catch (harvest) of aquatic biological resources.

The Governor sets the following criteria for the distribution of quotas for catch (harvest) of aquatic biological resources: 1) the number and the types of fishing vessels in ownership or on leasehold; 2) the number of fishing areas; 3) factual utilization of coastal fish processing enterprises; 4) revenues to the budgets of all level for the previous year; 5) economic efficiency of the productive activity of the enterprise; 6) mastering of quotas for the previous year; 7) lack of the infringements of the fisheries legislation in the previous year. The following categories have priority rights for the use of aquatic biodiversity: 1) legal persons and individual entrepreneurs carrying out industrial fisheries for no less than 10 years; 2) enterprises in possession of proper industrial facilities for deep processing of fresh fish; 3) legal persons and individual entrepreneurs that take active part in the stock enhancement arrangements, amelioration of natural water bodies and dredging operations in the fish passing channels.