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Thursday, 25.04.2024, 12:23
Estonia gets bigger fish quotas in border lakes for next year
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Of the major species harvested in the lakes, the Estonian quota for perch is 1,150 tons, for pike perch 830 tons, for bream 800 tons, for pike 125 tons, for roach 350 tons and for European whitefish 45 tons. The quotas for all these species were increased, the Ministry of Environment said.
"In deciding about the harvest caps recommendations of scientists were taken into account. Scientists estimated the situation of the pike perch, perch, bream and pike stocks to be good, whereas the restriction on catches of smelt and houting has to be left in force to protect the stocks," said the head of the Estonian delegation, secretary general of the Ministry of Environment Andres Talijarv.
Stocks of smelt and houting remain low partly because of high numbers of prey fish in the lakes and also as a result of weather having been not favorable to spawning.
Harvesting of smelt and houting as target species remains forbidden.
The overall fishing quota for the three lakes in 2017 is 7,014 tons, which is divided equally between Estonia and Russia.
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