The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law on fisheries to make the fishery Act (Republic of Latvia Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1995, no. 11; 1997, no. 22; 1998; 2000, no. 23, 6. No; 2001, No 23) follows: 1. Replace the entire law, the words "the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry" (fold) with the words "Ministry of environment" (fold).
2. Express article 1 point 6 and 7 by the following: "6) cables bar: the land along the coast of the water bar, designed for fishing or boating related activities and pedestrians;
7) recreational fishing — fishing and underwater hunting, recreation or sports activities in order to of fishing gear for the fish; ".
3. Replace article 5, second paragraph, the words "scientific expertise" with the words "fisheries expertise".
4. Express article 8 the third paragraph as follows: "(3) the use of the fishing rights of the first paragraph of article 3 and 4 in the cases referred to in point is punctuated by the fisheries administration or municipalities concerned, the unilateral decision by the Ministry of environment, environmental State Inspectorate, marine administration or regional environmental management initiatives, and this decision shall enter into force on the administrative procedure law. The application or the application for appeal against or challenge the decision not to suspend its activity. "
5. Supplement article 9 the seventh subparagraph of paragraph 4 by the following: "4) ūdenstūrist settlement construction."
6. Express article 10 the third paragraph as follows: "(3) recreational fishing — fishing and underwater hunting — to be in accordance with the provisions of the fishing and recreational fishing — fishing — regulatory requirements."
7. Express article 11 the third paragraph as follows: "(3) fishing permit (licence) issued by environmental protection Department, the Marine Department and regional environmental management under the administration of fisheries and the Environment Ministry allocated for the harmonised limits."
8. Make the text of article 12 as follows: "(1) fishing for specific purposes (fish farming, acclimatization, kontrolzvej, melioratīv and other types of fish) and for scientific research purposes based on the management of the Fisheries and Environment Ministry coordinated fisheries research programs, water projects, operating rules or other scientific recommendations that determine the need for such fishing, and fishing permits (licences) to receive the environmental protection administration.
(2) such public fishing waters and the waters in which fishing rights belong to the State, to be made on the basis of the work timetable which reconciled with the fish resources of the waters, and after applying a master regional environmental governance or management of the marine environment, while the private waters in which fishing rights do not belong to the State, based on the schedule agreed with the owner of the waters. "
9. Make the text of article 16 as follows: ' (1) in order to ensure the conservation of resources and protection, fisheries management, based on the Latvian Institute of fisheries research or management of nature protection recommendations, after coordination with the Ministry of environment can identify measures to regulate fisheries on a time limit or completely stop fishing in certain waters or parts thereof and propose to stop waters and cables in the action bar, which negatively affect the hydrological regime of the waters pollute the waters, or tow bar, change the water table in a body of water or other fish resources of the adverse conditions, as well as fishing and early‐warning measures or the part that is made of fish restocking of fish procurement needs.
(2) industrial fishing with nets on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays free of ice fishing season is prohibited in all public Lakes, except public Lakes (parts). These individual public Lakes list and the order in which they shall be industrial fishing with nets regulated by Cabinet regulations on industrial fishing in inland waters.
(3) industrial fishing, except for eel, smelt, Lake stickleback and specialized fishing, vetch is prohibited in public Lakes: Alūksne district: Lake Alūksne; Balvi district, a prize and viļaka Lakes; Cēsis district, the Āraiši Lake; Dobele district, lielauce Lake; Jēkabpils district — viesīte Lake; Jurmala, Sloka in the Lake; Krāslava district, Dagda Lake; Kuldīga district — big and small navel Navel Lakes; Limbaži district, Lielezer; Ludza district, a small lake in ludzas; Madona district, the island in the Lake; Rezekne District, kaunata Rezekne and Lakes; Riga, Jugla, in Lake Kisezers; Riga region – the great Baltezer, little Baltezer, Babīte Lake and Dzirnezer.
(4) in order to preserve fish resources as well as develop the recreational purpose, the need to use public waters (section 1, annex), the fisheries administration after coordination with the Ministry of environment on the basis of a proposal from the local authorities may prohibit industrial fishing. "
10. Express article 17, third and fourth subparagraph by the following: "(3) the industrial fishing prohibited from using fish wire, except where, in accordance with article 12 of this law need to make fishing for specific purposes and scientific research purposes.
(4) in all rivers and canals is prohibited, except for the industrial fishing of eels, Lampreys and stickleback fish specialized for specific purposes, fishing and scientific research purposes in accordance with article 12 of this law, as well as fishing and Buļļup the river Daugava (also its reservoirs) where it can be done, pursuant to Cabinet of Ministers regulations on industrial fishing in inland waters. "
11. in article 18: turn off the title, the word "State";
to make the text of the article as follows: "the Republic of Latvia in internal waters, territorial waters and economic zone waters of fish resources and the monitoring of environmental State Inspectorate, marine management, environmental protection administration and regional environmental management, as well as municipalities authorized person the municipal administrative territory."
12. Turn off the title of article 19 the word "national".
13. Add to article 19 of the fourth subparagraph by the following: "(4) the authorities of the State authorized officials or local police in the presence of representatives of the eligible cases within their competence to suspend a fishing permit (license) to use and compose the administrative protocols the municipal administrative territory, this Protocol shall be transmitted to the competent institutions concerned."
14. Replace article 21, third paragraph, the number and the words "the second subparagraph of article 3 conditions" with a number and the words "in article 4, the second sentence of the second paragraph of these conditions".
15. in article 22: make the first paragraph by the following: "(1) Fish species and a new species for the introduction or propagation of the waters of the Republic of Latvia (regardless of the type of property) requires the permission of the administration of the conservation of nature, which is matched with the Fisheries Research Institute and the food and veterinary service.";
make the third paragraph as follows: "(3) the fisheries for restocking fish fry in the accounting procedures and the order in which they are in natural water bodies, getting into an established by the Cabinet of Ministers."
16. Make the text of article 23 by the following: "specialist fish-farming and the cultivation of aquatic plants in the waters of the Republic of Latvia (regardless of the type of property) requires master of resources permit, which is matched by the Latvian Institute of fisheries research and management of nature conservation."
17. Replace article 27, the word "Finance" with the word "financial".
18. transitional provisions be supplemented with 5, 6, and 7, paragraph by the following: "5. Article 8 of this law, the third part relating to the decision on the suspension of fishing rights to the entry into force of the administrative procedure law and the challenge to this decision or appeal shall enter into force simultaneously with the administrative procedure law. If that decision is taken before the administrative procedure law entered into force, it shall enter into force two weeks after acceptance.
6. The Cabinet of Ministers issued this law, article 22, third paragraph these provisions until January 1, 2004.
7. June 19, 2003 amendments adopted by this law, in the second paragraph of article 16, article 17, in the third and fourth parts, as well as article 16, third paragraph shall enter into force on January 1, 2004. "
The law adopted by the Parliament in June 19, 2003.
The President of the Parliament instead of the President i. Otter in Riga in 2003 July 10 Editorial Note: the law shall enter into force on 24 July 2003.