The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia, 1998 February 17 rules no. Riga, 5 5 (7.21) rules on industrial fishing in the territorial waters of the Republic of Latvia, the economic waters and the Gulf of Riga were issued under the Fisheries Act article 13 i. General questions 1. These rules determine the order in which the Latvian and foreign natural and legal persons conducting industrial fishing in the territorial waters of the Republic of Latvia, the economic waters and the Gulf of Riga (hereinafter marine waters) , as well as industrial fishing in the fish resource and protection e s logged conditions.
2. Marine waters within the meaning of these provisions is the waters located on the sea side of the shoreline, but the river flows into the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga — waters behind the line of the sea, which connects the River to the opposite shore of the sea below the stated points, but ports — located on opposite sides of the waterworks or other structures at the stated points further out to sea, and these waters include the territorial sea waters the economic zone waters of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga, Latvia the waters which exercises its jurisdiction.
3. Marine waters depending on the commercial fishing (fishing), fisheries and fish protection and control features are broken down as follows: 3.1 the coast — territorial waters of the Republic of Latvia and Riga Gulf water, located no farther than two nautical miles from the coast and at a depth of not more than 20 metres;
3.2. the Gulf of Riga — marine waters that border the line, laid down in accordance with the law Of the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Estonia, the agreement on the demarcation of the sea of the Gulf of Riga and irbe Strait in the Baltic Sea "and connects the Load of the southern part of the Cape (57 ° 57,4760 ' N; 21 ° 58,2789 ' E) with Oviš Lighthouse (57 ° 34,1234 ' N; 21 ° 42,9574 ' E), and the border line in the Gulf of Riga in accordance with the Treaty;
3. the sea-territorial and the Republic of Latvia Riga sea bay waters behind the coastal bar and economic zone waters.
4. to make fishing and fish resource research, marine waters in accordance with the provisions of annex 1 and the numbering is divided into zones and subdivisions, fishing squares.
5. the Sea Fishing is allowed, if it is presented in the following documents: 5.1 legal persons — if the fishery is a license to conduct business, but the fishermen — individual workers — if they are registered for the protection of the environment and Ministry of regional development in the management of the marine environment (Marine administration);
5.2. If the natural or legal person (hereinafter Fisher) have fishing rights lease agreements, they are definitly catch or fishing gear, the number limit (hereinafter referred to as the fishing limits) and the fishing permit (licence) issued by the Marine Department, but this provision under point 8 of these cases — the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry of environmental inspection of the va l St. (hereinafter the State Environment Inspectorate).
6. foreign natural and legal persons (hereinafter referred to as foreign fishermen) fishing by Latvia's economic waters and the Gulf of Riga, on the basis of the current year the agreement protocol signed under the binding international agreements.
7. fishing in sea waters are allowed: 7.1. in accordance with the fishing limits laid down each year by matching with the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry and, taking into account the International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission allocated catch quotas for Latvia and the Latvian Institute of fisheries research recommendations, established the Ministry of agriculture in the national fisheries authority (hereinafter referred to as the fish's aimniecīb authority);
7.2. the fishing vessels of the list according to the fishing grounds and fish species in the sea each year, approved by the fisheries administration.
8. the marine waters of scientific and other specific purposes (fish farming, acclimatization, kontrolzvej, melioratīv and other types of fishing), after coordination with the fisheries management and environmental State Inspectorate issued the relevant fishing permits (licenses) of the date of receipt of specialized research vessels or other vessels and floating means. Foreign fishermen i (International Organization) scientific research can be made in accordance with the procedure laid down in Latvia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs received the appropriate authorization.
II. obligations of the Fishermen 9. General responsibilities: 9.1. fish with vessels included in the lists approved by the fisheries administration, and not to exceed the limits of fishing;
9.2. to ensure shared catch and fish landing records by species and by weight (if necessary — by number), coastal fisheries, by fishing gear type;
9.3. to register the data of fishing fisheries administration-approved fishing magazines: coastal fisheries — after returning to shore before the sale or transport of fish, sea fishing, after each fishing operation, but foreign fishermen — val t s concerned fishing magazines;
9.4. in ascending order to collect data on catches by fish species in each fishing sub-area or coastal fisheries and fisheries management in accordance with the approved report form to submit relevant information in the management of the marine environment: 9.4.1. Latvian fishermen, not later than the month following the reporting month, the sixth date;
9.4.2. foreign fishermen, not later than the month following the reporting month twentieth date;
9.5. the fisheries management, environmental State Inspectorate or the management of the marine environment of the request to provide information, which describes the fishing waters of the sea, and messages related to ship and boat identification and characteristics;
9.6. highlight dreifējošo and floating anchorage fishing gear in accordance with the provisions of annex 2 of this o;
9.7. the role of the lift shall immediately make the sorting of fish, and, if the by-catch exceeded the rules laid down in point 22 of by volume, the quantity of fish to dismiss;
6.1. to prevent such fishing, fish processing and fish in the sea transport-related activities causing environmental pollution at sea, in ports and shore;
9.9. enable research institutions by the treaties, to take fish for biological analysis. Biological analysis and other scientific studies, the catches are not credited to the fishermen in the fishing limits, if not otherwise specified in the contract;
9.10. to report to the Fisheries Research Institute in Latvia on the marked fish and birds, as well as sea mammals (e.g., seals) catching;
9.11. in order to ensure the compliance of Latvian fishing fleet to available fish resources, to coordinate with the management of fisheries and fishing vessels new fishing vessels;
9.12. allow national inspection of the environment and the management of the marine environment of the authorised officers to examine every board room, to present a test fishery, fish caught and treated, finished products, fishing gear and fishing-related documents and allow extracts from them, as well as to provide inspection not needed., p
10. the captains and Assistant captains (the guard's) responsibilities, as well as through fishing, fish processing and transportation: 10.1 to take on board and transfer to other ships and the environmental State inspection management of the marine environment of the authorising officers, who shall perform the duties, at their request;
10.2. allow national inspection of the environment and the management of the marine environment of the authorised officers, who perform their duties, free stay on the offshore vessels;
10.3. free to broadcast from a ship of State environmental inspection stations and marine environmental management officials notified the service of messages;
10.4. keep on board those provisions and other documents governing the fishing but to foreign vessels — the year in which the Protocol Agreement signed under international treaties, certain documents;
10.5. ensure that vessel or floating means of identification should be clearly legible;
10.6. two hours prior to entry into port with the port authority on news the ship's cargo — sea fish caught — and the expected time of arrival in port.
10.7. the foreign captains more responsibility to send reports about the ship's entry into and exit from the Latvian jurisdiction in maritime waters, under the agreement for the year in which the Protocol signed under the Republic of Latvia and the national fishery agreement.
III. conditions of use of fishing gear for fishermen is prohibited: 11 11.1. keep on board the vessel or floating gear products other than those referred to in annex 3 of these regulations, as well as to be in the sea coast to gear up for the use of the fishing period and instead use prohibited. Spare fishing gear permitted to be kept separate from the fishing gear used;
11. use enkurojamo and 2 floating gear without marking or labelling does not comply with the provisions in annex 2;
11.3. Add gear device that could obscure a mesh or reduce their size, except that rule 13 and 14 in the cases provided for in paragraph 1;
11.4. wiring for towing ashore using motor vehicles;

11.5. deploy coastal fisheries network, a network of lines, longlines, pots and lucīš lucīš of trap lines closer than 100 m one from the other, in any direction, but herring fixed gear, fish traps (sīkzivj) and eel traps closer than 700 m one from the other side and less than 100 m in the direction of the other directions;
11.6. using fishing explosive, toxic or narcotic substances, elektrozvej, as well as pneumatic weapons and duramo tools;
7.3. the use for fishing bait fish wire, if the designated surface limit is less than 300 hooks and marine environmental management is not received the license for fishing with bait fish.
12. in paragraph 11 of these rules and 3. gear referred to in the annex are not considered ready for use if: 12.1. trawl door is securely fixed to the falšbort internal or external parties or trawl the circles and veijer and cables disconnected from or reels;
12.2. the cord in the lower bottom of the round wire is disconnected from the network.
12.3. the network are placed in the covers;
12.4. longline and hooks are placed in closed boxes.
13. to prevent premature wear of the network, allowed: 13.1. affix the lower end of the canvas (tarpaulin), network, fabric or other materials;
13.2. in the end, the funnel and the strength of the cylindrical part of the building to use the bags, which are prepared from the equivalent or coarser material than used for the manufacture of the cod-end of mesh size that internal at least twice the mesh size of the codend internal, but not less than 80 mm in the case of mesh size in less than 40 mm. Bags can be attached along the front and rear of the codend or the edge between them stitch along one, really wide range of v a i stitch along one line in length of the codend.
14. Traļo, and towed the wiring is allowed to use in the valve (the dam network) with a smaller mesh size than internal trawl codend. The valve shall be affixed inside the codend and its front. The distance between the valve mounting the front line and the rear end of the codend shall be at least three times the length of the valve.
IV. Fishing gear characteristics and allowable number 15. It shall be prohibited to use the gear, the characteristics of which differ from these rules referred to in annex 4, the allowable parameters, including: 15.1 trawls and towed the wires, if it is of mesh size less than the specialized fishing for specified the following dimensions: 15.1.1. cod fishing with trawls, 120 mm conventional; 15.1.2. cod fishing with trawls equipped with selective Windows or other structures with 38 cm cod 50% retention — 105 mm; 15.1.3. flounder fishing in the subregion — 120 mm 26; 15.1.4. flounder fishing in subdivision 28-110 mm; 15.2. If the networks of mesh size less than: 15.2.1. cod 105-mm; 15.2.2. flounder fishing in the subregion — 120 mm 26; 15.2.3. flounder fishing in subdivision 28-110 mm; 15.3. trawls, the mesh if step is less than the specialized fishing for specified the following dimensions : 15.3.1. herring fishing in the subregion — 16 mm 26.15.3.2. herring fishing; 28. subregional-14 mm for fishing for sprat 15.3.3.26 and 28. subregional-8 mm 15.4. specialized in fishing gear, the mesh if a step does not meet the following dimensions: 15.4.1. herring and smelt fishing with nets and riser: from 14 to 25 mm; 15.4.2. sprat for fishing with nets, from 10 to 15 mm. lucīš fishing with 15.4.3 lucīš pots — from 16 up to 20 mm (excluding consist tail);
15.5. salmon and sea trout in directed fishing for: 15.5.1. drift nets and anchored floating nets, if of mesh size less than 157 mm; 15.5.2. use one fishing vessel more than 600 drifting and floating anchored nets, taking into account that the length of each net not exceeding 35 metres, measured along the augšvir;
15.5.3. simultaneous use of one fishing vessel drifting or anchored in long lines, which together have more than 2,000 hooks;
15.5.4. keep on one ship more than 100 reserve nets and 200 Reserve hooks;
15.5.5. use hooks that the shortest distance of the spires to stalk is less than 19 mm. coastal fisheries: 15.6 15.6.1. individual networks if it exceeds 100 m; 15.6.2. fish and eel traps (sīkzivj) herring fixed gear if it exceeds 600 m back; when network 15.6.3 mesh step is less than 40 mm (except this rule 15.4. in the cases referred to in (a));
15.6.4. fish traps and fish towed cables if the mesh at any step of the construction elements, except cod is less than 30 mm lucīš pots 15.6.5. If it exceeds 2 m in height or length exceeds 30 m Ranch; 15.6.6. eel traps (sīkzivj), if the mesh is less than 16 mm or greater than 18 mm, but the ranch – less than 18 mm or greater than 30 mm 15.6.7. bait fish towed cables If the length exceeds 10 m wingspan and mesh step is less than 6 mm or greater than 12 mm. 16. Specialized in fishing for cod shall be prohibited to have on board the fishing gear, the mesh size of which is smaller than the cod fishing gear allowed in size.
V. Prohibition of fishing times and locations 17. Prohibited: 17.1. flounder fishing specialist, from 15 February to 15 may;
17.2. any fishing of turbot, the processing or storage of vessels and other floating means, from 1 June to 31 July;
17.3. the herring fishery in the Gulf of Riga with trawls, from 12 May to 10 June;
17.4. all types of fishing gear throughout the year, Daugava, Gauja Salatsi, River Lielupe and Venta River estuary areas 1000 m radius from the mouth, while the rest flows into the river and Canal areas — 200 m radius from the mouth;
17.5. the coast with all types of gear: 17.5.1. from 1 May to 31 May, except for herring and lucīš specialized fishing. During the said barring the directed fishing of flounder with Danish seines allowed, starting with the May 16;
17.5.2.1 o ktobr to 15 November, except in specialized fishing flounder with flounder and herring seines specialized fishing with the herring nets;
10.9. lucīš fishing: 17.6.1. trawling — throughout the year.
17.6.2. specialized fishing with traps, from 1 October to 30 April;
17.7. z Veja with Danish seines all year Riga Sea Bay flounder fishing, except in the area of Oviš Horn to Horn of Kolka and fishing with bait fish cord;
11.1. flounder fishing with towed cables in places where the depth does not exceed 5 m; 11.1. specialist sprat fishery in the Gulf of Riga with trawls throughout the year;
17.10. trawling in areas where the depth does not exceed 20 m, as well as Partridge Strait between the lines that connect the Oviš Lighthouse (57 ° 34,1234 21 ° 42,9574 '; ') with the Load of the lighthouse (57 ° 21 ° 58,2789 ' 57,4760 ';) West and kolka Horn (57 ° N 22 ° 45,60 '; 36,40 ' E) with Kāvinin Lighthouse (57 ° N 22 ° 36,80 59,00 '; ' E) in the East, and 187, 194.201. fishing and square (annex 1);
17.11. trawling if they attached gruntrop, the Gulf of Riga — throughout the year.
17.12. SPE cializēt in fish's technical needs and animal feed (except sprat and herring fishing) or without coordination with the fisheries management and environmental State Inspectorate to put these targets more than 10% of the total catch;
17.13. transhipment of cod at sea to other ships or floating means.
18. Salmon and sea trout fishing is prohibited in the specialized: 18.1 with drifting nets and anchored floating nets from 1 June to 15 September;
18.2. with drifting and moored in line — from 1 April to 15 November;
18.3. with drift nets, anchored floating nets and drift or anchor in the longline fisheries in the Gulf of Riga and sea coast — throughout the year.
18.4. to all types of fishing gear on the coast, from 1 October to 15 November.
19. Ð o rule 15, 16, 17 and 18 of the said fishing is considered specialized if: 19.1 is made of a given fish species fishing with this fish species to the fishing gear and fish species and fishing gear are recorded in the fishing licence (the licence);
19.2. what fish species catch weight repeatedly exceeds 50% of the respective network in the post or trawling for the total weight of the catch when fishing with the same gear, altering fisheries, a distance of not more than five nautical miles from any same day trawling the route or the post.
Vi. the minimum length of the fish and non-target volumes 20. It shall be prohibited to exceed the provisions mentioned in paragraph 22 of the undersized fish by-catch, as well as to accept, handle, transport, store and sell the following species, if their size is less fresh than: 20.1. sprat (sprattus sprattus baltic), 10 cm; 20.2. smelt (Osmer to eperlan): 11 cm; 20.3. herring (Clupea harengus Membri): 20.3.1. The Gulf of Riga and its coast — 11 cm; 20.3.2. sea and its coast-13 cm; 20.4. perch (Perca fluviatilis) — 17 cm 20.5. lucīt (zoarces viviparus)-20 cm; 20.6. flounder (platichthys flesus trachurus): 21 cm; 20.7. Vimbai (Vimb-vimb)-29 cm; 12.9. Norman (abramis Brama): 29 cm; 20.9. ālant (id Leucisc)-29 cm; 20.10. turbot (Psett maximum) — 30 cm 20.11. whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) — 35 cm; 20.12. cod (Gadus morhua callari) — 35 cm 20.13. eel (Anguilla Anguilla) — 45 cm 20.14. Zander (Stizostedion lucioperc) — 45 cm 20.15. Pike (Esox Lucio) — 45 cm. sea trout to 20.16 (Salmo trutta) — 50 cm; 20.17. salmon (Salmo salar) 60 cm.

21. The rules referred to in paragraph 20 of the fish size is determined by measuring the fish from the muzzle end (closed mouth) to the end of the tail fin. If processed (salted, smoked or dried) fish, a particular size is reduced by 4%.
22. the level of by-catch fish volume: 22.1. by herring and cod fishing for sprat shall not exceed 10% of the total weight of the catch, except that rule 22.8. referred cases. Undersized cod may not be more than 5% of cod by-catch;
22.2. undersized cod, flounder and turbot by-catches should not exceed 5% of the species concerned one or network hauls the catch weight;
22.3. undersized herring and sprat catch catch of each species listed must not exceed 15% of their number one, except the first hauls hauls, after which, if the by-catch exceeded certain interest, fishing must stop or change the location;
22.4. the azizmēr lucīš the by-m fishing with pots of lucīš may not exceed 15% of the total catch of lucīš weight;
22.5. undersized whitefish, vimb, ālant and Zander fishing by-catch in traps and nets may not exceed 5% by number of species of fish concerned a sudden wobble jas;
22.6. cod by-catches of flounder fishing ban period must not exceed 10% of the subregion — 28, 26 — 30% of the subregion total catch weight of cod, except that rule 22.8. referred to;
14.1. the rest of the undersized fish that are not mentioned in this rule 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4..., 22.5 and 22.6. in point total by-catches should not exceed 5% of the total catch weight;
22.8. After some fish species fishing limit full learning by doing other specialized fishing fish species may not exceed 5% by-catch of this species from the total weight of the catch.
23. Not allowed: 23.1. undersized salmon and sea trout catches;
23.2. the by-catches of turbot fishing ban period.
23.3. the rules referred to in paragraph 20 of the by-catch of fish species (regardless of size) the bait fish fishing with bait fish.
24. If catches exceed this rules 22 and by-catches laid down in paragraph 23, the quantity of fish released immediately and make the relevant entries in the logbook, considering that: 24.1. by-catches of the species is considered to be the particular role of fish for which fishing is prohibited during the period, place, or with the appropriate gear, as well as small fish and fish for which fishing is not for fishing permission (licence);
24.2. determination of by-catches of major role year partitions (1 t and more) from multiple locations are taken at least three samples and the percentage of by-catches shall be determined as the average of a sample of individual interest.
VII. Fisheries management and fisheries control authorities of the rights and obligations of the Zivsaimn 25, construction administration, based on the Latvian Institute of fisheries research recommendations by matching with the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry has the following rights and obligations: 25.1. the International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission recommendations for changes in international fishing rules for the year of establishing the current measures in the regulation;
25.2. to identify any additional adjustment to stop fishing, fishing in some places marine waters, as well as to decide on certain species of fish, the fishing suspension, if fully used or exceeded limits and quotas fixed amounts;
25.3. depending on air conditions change the fishing ban, the start time of 15 days, without altering the total duration of the ban, but to save them the time of the ban, adopted by the International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission;
25.4. subject to the International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission for Latvia allocated catch quotas, establish fishing limits and catch fish volume of exchanges provided for in the protocols signed in the framework of intergovernmental agreements, as well as to define the allowable number of fishing vessels and fishing type marine waters, and to divide the fishing limits for fishermen.
26. The fisheries administration is right not to conclude commercial fishing rights lease, as well as the right not to grant additional fishing limit and not to issue new fishery business licence if the purchase of a fishing vessel or structure not previously matched by the fisheries administration.
27. the functions of the environmental State and insp marine management authorised officers have the following rights and obligations: 27.1. to issue fishing permits (licences) and determine their procedures for the issuing and extension, as well as fishing regulations test before a fishing permit (licence) issued and register the fishermen — the individual Installer;
27.2. the infringement cases, suspend or withdraw a fishing authorisation (licence) and inform the relevant fisheries management or coastal municipalities;
27.3. stay on board fishing vessels and floating means of space ship, caught and processed fish products, fishing gear, fishing and fishing-related documents, as well as write the required information from the document referred to in the nt;
27.4. to request from the fishermen on fishing information;
27.5. upon arrival of a vessel at the port of unloading fish and make the first sales documents and records;
17.1. to collect from the fishermen received messages for the current month and the month following the reporting month, the 15th date of the fisheries management and Fisheries Research Institute of Latvia to submit a report on the fish catch in the previous month.
VIII. Liability for non-compliance with these rules 28. natural and legal persons, irrespective of the administrative penalty imposed or criminal sanctions is bound in accordance with the provisions of annex 5 of the damages caused to the fish resources as a result of these regulations.
29. irrespective of the administrative penalty imposed or criminal penalties if these rules are breached again, the environmental State inspection and management of the marine environment of the authorized officials entitled to withdraw a fishing authorisation issued (license). The fishing regulations may result in the refusal to grant the s limit next year or lease fishing rights for breach of contract.
30. The fish obtained in the absence of such provisions, regardless of the place of infringement of environmental State Inspectorate and management of the marine environment, the authorized officials of the relevant documents, shall be seized and sold by the factory or trading companies (companies), and the amount of fish caught off the fisherman's catch limit.
31. Environmental State inspection and marine environmental management officials at the request of the authorised fishing gear and floating means used in fishing, the absence of such provisions, as well as the fish caught up to their sales or take the place of storage of the offending provisions.
IX. Transition issues 32. Lucīš the prohibition of the use of fishing gear that is defined on this provision in 15.4.3, shall enter into force by 1 January 1999.
33. In the course of trawl fishing ban with gruntrop set this rule 17.11., shall enter into force by 1 January 2000.
34. the prohibition of veikðan without a business license or registration, provided that rule 5.1, coastal fisheries come into force by January 1, 1999.
35. Be declared unenforceable: 21.8. Cabinet of Ministers 3 May 1994 Regulation No 99 "for industrial fisheries in the Republic of Latvia in territorial sea waters and economic zone in the Gulf of Riga" (Latvia's journal, 1994, 60 no; 1996, no. 120);
35.2. The Cabinet of Ministers of 9 July 1996, Regulation No 258 "amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers 3 May 1994 Regulations No 99" for industrial fisheries in the Republic of Latvia in territorial sea waters and economic zone in the Gulf of Riga "(Latvia's journal, 1996, 120 no).
 
Prime Minister g. shore farming Minister a. Rāviņš annex 2 Cabinet of 17 February 1998, the Regulation No. 55 of the marking of fishing gear 1. Baltic Sea and Gulf of Riga coastal waters behind the bar (two nautical miles behind the baseline) must have the following gear equipment: 1.1. marker buoys shall western sector (from the South through the West to the North including) must be equipped with two flags, two fluorescent Ribbon stripes and limited visibility, also with two white lights. Those in the eastern sector (from North to South through the East including) must be fitted with one flag, one Ribbon stripe luminescent and limited visibility, also with one light;
1.2. the fishing gear that is longer than one nautical mile, must be fitted with a starpstoder for every one nautical mile. Those must be fitted as in the eastern sector, but the flags shall be white;
1.3. drifting haul both ends must be fitted with those, and they must be equipped just like the eastern sector. With the marker buoys shall not be equipped with vessel connected end of fishing gear;
1.4. If the gear is located close to ūdensvirsm, the marker buoys must be equipped with a spherical surface signs and lights;
1.5. String that connects the fishing gear and buoys should be from sinking or weight-bearing material;

1.6. displayed must be at least 1.5 m above the water level. Flags must be rectangular and each edge of the flag, not shorter than 40 cm. Distance between two flags along the vertical must be at least 20 cm. Distance between the flag and the surface of the water must be at least 80 cm. Flag, which is a fishing tool, both ends must be the same colour (other than white) and with the same size. Top of the mark must be spherical (round) 25 cm in diameter and with fluorescent tape. These marks may be used instead of the spherical ra d arreflektor. For fluorescent tape must be at least 6 cm wide. The light must be yellow and flashing with a five-second intervals and the visibility of at least two nautical miles away. The reflected signal Radarreflektor visibility the ship radar should have at least two nautical miles. Or those buoys upper alarm must not be red or green. To the buoys or flag should be a number or name of the ship.
2. Coast all gear must be marked as follows: 2.1 the label must be made of styrofoam, Cork or other waterproof material, and its size may not be less than 5 x 10 cm, or from baltmetāl (aluminium or other light metal) — with the plate size 3 x 6 cm 2.2. label must include the following particulars: 2.2.1. fishing authorization (licenses) number;
2.2.2. the name of the legal person or physical person's name. The size of the letters and numbers written on the degree of wear and must be such that the inscriptions and signs should be clearly legible;
2.3. label pi estiprin: 2.3.1. network at both ends of the top line, not more than one metre from each end;
2.3.2. the trap and riser — at one of the objective of the offing feet above the water and at the Central buoys;
2.3.3. lucīš trap both ends at anchor buoys;
2.3.4. the long lines at the pamataukl: no further than one metre from each end;
2.4. labelling of the marks must also be on one of the network anchors or the target buoys. These buoys must be marked with the distinctive, dark blue or black flag, which differs from other buoy flags. Flag size must not be smaller than 20 x 30 cm. Where warranted by the depth, buoy location flags can be fixed to the Insert cards;
2.5. the fishing tools, which are used in accordance with the treaties, research purposes, in addition to being marked also with research institutions.
 
Minister of agriculture a. Rāviņš Appendix 3 of the Cabinet of Ministers of 17 February 1998, the Regulation No 55 authorized gear 1. Trawl-asset type of gear, consisting of a rope or rope construction that attached to the tapered mesh bag with s and dragging one or two vessels: a bottom-trawl 1.1 with gruntrop;
1.2. the pelagic trawl trawl without the gruntrop;-
1.3. the twin trawl-pelagic trawl, which pulled two ships.
2. Pull wire-asset type of gear, consisting of cables, mesh wings and mesh bag (tail): 2.1 wire — flounder towed wire specialist fishing flounder;
2.2. the bait fish the wire — small smalkacain wire mesh towed the bait fish to the surface.
3. Network: the passive type of fishing gear that consists of viensien or trammel netting and is tied (uzsēdināt) at the cords (above): 3.1 Pack network — a network that is free to move in the wind or currents;
3.2. floating anchored network — the shareholders present, anchored at the bottom;
3.3. network line — at the top of the interconnected network.
4. Herring — fixed riser cage-type gear, consisting of fences, paddocks and one or two loose boxes at the top of the funnel (elevation).
5. Trap-cage type fixed gear, consisting of fences, paddocks and one or two of the flapper with cod: the fish trap-5.1 pots, mesh which step is not less than 30 cm; 5.2. eel (sīkzivj) pots-pots, mesh which step is between 16 and 18 mm lucīš pots 5.3 — for lucīš specialized fishing trap of consisting of a back and two pots with cod (consist tail);
5.4. lucīš trap lines — connect the pots line lucīš.
6. Line-to pamataukl with hooks attached to snoods line that is anchored or drifting.
 
Minister of agriculture a. Rāviņš annex 4 of the Cabinet of Ministers of 17 February 1998, the Regulation No 55 commercial fishing gear design elements acceptable parameters 1. active gear name wing long s (m) of mesh size (mm) COD haul normal — not less than 120 with selective window — not less than 105 * Flounder trawl 26. apakðrajon, not less than 28 120. apakðrajon — no less than 110 * herring haul 26. apakðrajon — no less than 16 * 28. apakðrajon — no less than 14 ** sprat trawl, not less 8 ** flounder towed cord 26. apakðrajon is not greater than 20 not less than 120 28. apakðrajon is not greater than 20 not less than 110 fish towed cable not more than 20 not less than 30 * bait fish towed wire is not greater than 10 from 6 to 12 * 2. Passive fishing gear name back or the back of the network or network design mesh length (m) eye size in rs (mm) size (mm) 1 2 3 4 herring riser for a maximum of 600
between 16 and 30 * from the 14 to 25 ** fish trap not greater than 600 from 30 to 120 * not less than 30 * except s or box consist of eel (sīkzivj), not great for pot ks 600 from 18 to 30 from 16 to 18 ** Lucīš trap not greater than 30 from 16 to 20 from 16 to 20 * * except s or box fish consist of not more than 100 network not less than 40, herring and smelt network not more than 100 of the 14 to 25 **-sprat network a maximum of 100 from 10 to 15, the cod network is not greater than 100 not less than 105-26. apakðrajon network flounder not greater than 100 not less than 120-28. apakðrajon not greater than 100 not less than 110 salmon and sea trout: network not greater than 35 no less than salmon and sea trout 157-hook hook size — no less than 19-liner notes. * Mesh inner size is determined using the flat 2 mm-thick touch (spraugmēr), made of a material resistant to wear, with a section in mm and slīpņ drop 2 cm for every touch of the touch with the 8 cm. hand printed mesh openings and read the measurement. Measure the stretched mesh eyes perpendicular to the seam stitching the rope, or s tropical. The measurement shall be carried out only in the wet the mesh, selecting one of the centreline of the gear 20 eyes not less than 50 cm from lacings connection seams, stitching the rope or slings.
** Mesh step determined by measuring the distance between the wet gear up netting 11 received a single line dividing their knots by 10. On the basis of 20 mesh (one line) measurement of the average size, measured parallel to the gear centreline no closer than 10 meshes (but not closer than 50 cm) from the mesh connection seams, stitching the rope lengthwise or m.
 
Minister of agriculture a. Rāviņš annex 5 Cabinet of 17 February 1998, the Regulation No 55 rates for the purpose of calculating the amount to be recovered for the loss of any natural or legal person caused when illegally obtaining fish sea of the Republic of Latvia no.
Purpose of loss of fish species-BC
 
remuneration (in LCY) childhood 1.
Sprat, herring, smelt 0.5 1 kg 2.
Pout, flounder, snapper, vimb, ālant, perch 0.5 x 1
3. Ling 1.5 x 1
4. Cod, turbot, whitefish, eel, Zander 5.0 x 1
5. Salmon, sea trout 25.0 x 1
6. Other species of fish referred to in that rule 18 1 Note: 1.0 kg Illegal foreign fishing in the fish collection can result in damage to pay in convertible currency at the Bank of Latvia exchange rate on the date of the reimbursement of a loss.
Minister of agriculture a. Rāviņš