The Republic of LATVIA Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 99 (pr. No. 24 1) for industrial fisheries in the Republic of Latvia in territorial sea waters and economic zone in the Gulf of Riga are Issued in accordance with the law «On the Republic of Latvia on the continental shelf and economic zone» 8., 11., 9, and article 31 1. Commercial-fishing regulations of the Republic of Latvia in territorial sea waters and economic zone in the Gulf of Riga (hereinafter – «sea») governed by the order in which the Republic of Latvia and foreign natural and legal persons (including international organizations) use of fish resources as well as regulating fisheries research and protection.
These rules must be adhered to in the maritime waters falling within the terrestrial side of the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured in the waters, and marine waters to these rules which determine the use of fish resources.
2. Depending on the fish resource use (hereafter referred to as «fishing»), protection and control features marine waters are divided into the following: 2.1 the coast — Latvian territorial sea and Gulf of Riga water located no further than 2 nautical miles from the coast and at a depth of not more than 20 metres;
2.2. the sea-Latvian territorial waters and economic zone waters;
2.3. the Gulf of Riga — waters that border the baseline established by the Cabinet of Ministers of 11 January 1994 rule no. 29 «on the State of the Republic of Latvia borders» (Rapporteur, 1994, 3) and in article 5 of the Horn between the Load goes south and Oviš in the Horn.
Note the. The river flows into the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga on the sea waters are considered the waters behind the lines that connect the opposite shore of the River at sea stated points, but ports — located on opposite sides of the waterworks or other structures at the stated points further out to sea.
3. fishing waters of the sea can take down the catch or gear limit. Catch or fishing Rick limits, taking into account the Republic of Latvia catch quotas determined by the 1973 Convention on fishing and conservation of the living resources in the Baltic Sea and the belts of the International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission and the Fisheries Research Institute of Latvia's recommendation, determined each year by the Ministry of transport, the Fisheries Department after coordination with the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry.
4. To be able to fish in the fishing and resource exploration, marine waters are divided into subdivisions, areas and squares (hereafter referred to as «» fishing sub-areas) in accordance with the provisions of annex 1 and the numbering.
5. natural and legal persons may fish in the waters of the sea only after the Ministry of transport from the Fisheries Department received specified catch limit and the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry issued the relevant fishing licence.
Fishing for scientific purposes the sea waters after coordination with. The Ministry of transport, the Fisheries Department carried out specialised research vessels, or other vessels and floating means the licence concerned environmental protection and regional development Ministry.
Foreign natural and legal persons (including international organizations) the scientific research may be carried out if prescribed in the Republic of Latvia received appropriate permission.
6. fishing can be done: 6.1. This provision, referred to in paragraph 1, the Republic of Latvia in the waters of natural and legal persons (hereinafter – «fishermen») limit and on the basis of licences issued;
6.2. economic area — foreign natural and legal persons (hereinafter – «fishermen») on the basis of concluded intergovernmental agreements for the exchange of quotas and signed the letters of agreement for each species of fish in the catch levels and the number of fishing vessels.
Note the. If these provisions of Latvian fishermen and foreign fishermen are faced with different requirements and different rights are given, it is listed separately.
7. duties of the Fishermen, fishing in the maritime waters: 7.1. to organize and carry out the fishing in quantities not exceeding catch of each species (if applicable);
7.2. to ensure shared catch and making records by species and by weight (if necessary — by number) and make the records review documents for the subregional or coastal fisheries;
7.3. to register the catch logbook or gathering news in order for ingrowing catches to fish species in each of the akšrajon or the zveļ coastal fisheries, and in accordance with the requirements of the reporting forms to submit the data concerned to the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry of Latvia: fishermen, not later than the month following the reporting month 10. date;
foreign fishermen, not later than the month following the reporting month 20. date;
7.4. the Fisheries Department of the Ministry of transport and the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry request to provide operational information, which describes the fishing waters of the sea;
7.5. The protection of the environment and regional development Ministry in order to highlight enkurojamo and floating (dreifējošo) fishing ' tools to determine their nationality;
7.6. starting trawling in the new location, if necessary, to take up to 30 minutes long kontroltralējum to verify the composition of fish species and by-catch of juvenile in compliance with the requirements of this regulation; kontroltralējum before it started to be recorded in the logbook;
7.7. to prevent fishing and fish transport activity, causing environmental pollution at sea and ashore. Environmental pollution of fish resources result in compensation for damages caused to the direct perpetrators;
7.8. enable scientific research institutions on a contractual basis to carry out biological analysis of fish. Biological analysis and other scientific studies, the amount of fish used are not credited to the fishermen catch limits laid down in a contract concluded, if not otherwise specified;
7.9. to report to the Fisheries Research Institute in Latvia on the marked fish and birds, as well as seal catching.
8. the captains and officers of the guard duty by fishing, fish processing and transportation:

8.1. to take on board and transfer to other ships, subject to the rules on maritime safety, protection of the environment and regional development Ministry officials authorised service during duty at their request;
8.2. to ensure the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry authorised officers duties in the exercise of a free stay to the sea in ships;
8.3. to broadcast from a ship broadcasters concerning the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry officials authorized signals and messages free of charge;
8.4. to ensure the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry authorised officers the opportunity to test all the vessel premises to produce for inspection the fish caught and treated, finished products, fishing gear and fishing related documentation (permits to take extracts from them) and provide the required inspection;
8.5. to respect and keep on board those provisions and other documents governing the fishing;
8.6. to ensure that the name of the ship should be clearly legible;
8.7. the two hours prior to entry into port with the port authority in the ship's cargo — sea fish caught — and the expected time of arrival in port.
8.8. the foreign captains more responsibility to send reports on the arrival of the vessel in the economic area, and exit from, the time of the arrival of the ship, as well as on existing economic area ' fish under the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry.
9. the duties of coastal fishermen, making fishing: 9.1 follow these rules and other regulations governing fishing;
9.2. to ensure the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry authorised officers the opportunity to test the floating feature, to produce fish caught for testing, finished product, fishing gear, fishing sites and the documentation relating to fishing, as with floating in the registration document;
9.3. ensure that the side of the floating means the number and name, if applicable, should be clearly legible;
9.4. fill out the logbook after the return from the shore fishing (before further transport of fish). 10. Fishermen banned: 10.1. accounting and reporting documents to provide false information on catches, fishing zones and species of fish caught;
10.2. keep on board or use prepared products floating gear which during the period and the subregion use prohibited.
Note the. For use in training are not considered the following gear: trawl, if door is securely fixed to the falšbort internal or external parties or trawl the circles and veijer and cables disconnected from or reels;
wires, if the lower bottom round is disconnected from the wired network.
network, if they are placed in covers;
long lines and hooks when they are placed in closed boxes.
Spare fishing gear permitted to be kept separate from the fishing gear used;
10.3. use enkurojamo and floating (dreifējošo) fishing gear without marking the layout with the specified pattern;
10.4. without reconciliation with the Fisheries Research Institute and the Department of fisheries, Ministry of transport use fundamentally new fishing gear and techniques;
10.5. Add gear device that could obscure a mesh or reduce their size, except for the 12 and 13 of the rules provided for in paragraph 1;
10.6. use trawls pair trawls and other fishing gear trawlable areas up to 20 metres in depth, and 284, 294, 295, 305., 316, 330, 187.201.194., and fishing in the squares (annex 1);
10.7. the specialized technical needs and fish feed (except sprat, herring and stickleback fish) or put them more than 10% of the total catch without coordination with the Fisheries Department of the Ministry of transport and the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry.
10.8. a fish species catch limit is totally learning by doing the other fish species of specialised fishing, by-catches of this species to exceed 5% of the total weight of the catch, if those rules do not provide for different procedures for the determination of by-catch.
Note the. Fishing is considered specialized if: one species of fish weight when fishing in the same subregion (up to 5 nautical miles from any previous route network trawling lines displaying the location point) with the same gear, exceed 50% of the repeated trawling, hauling in the net resultant of the total weight of the catch;
is made of a given fish species fishing with this fish species fishing for Rick, and it is written in a fishing licence;
10.9. wired for towing to shore to use motor vehicles (tractors, tractor and other features).
11. It shall be prohibited to use trawls and towed: 11.1. wires of mesh size less than the size specified for the specialized fishing: fishing for cod, flounder fishing 105 mm, 110 mm-11.2. floating (dreifējošo) network for salmon fishing, if of mesh size less than 157 mm; 11.3. Gill nets for catching, if rnenc of mesh size less than 105 mm. Note: 11.1 these rules. — 113. subparagraph gears 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 8 cm. internal mesh size is determined on the basis of the 20 mesh (one line) measurement of the average size, measured parallel to the codend centreline no closer than 10 meshes (but not closer than 50 cm) from seams and back edge of the codend;
11.4. the effects of the gear used, made of a network of mesh material, which is less than the specified size for fishing specialist: 11.4.1. herring fishing in the sea — 16 mm, the herring fishery in the Gulf of Riga — 14 mm 11.4.2. fishing for sprat, 10 mm 11.5. specialized in fishing and traps, made of a network of mesh material, which does not meet the following dimensions: 11.5.1. herring fishing in the sea — from 16 up to 20 mm , the herring fishery in the Gulf of Riga — between 14 and 20 mm. for fishing for sprat 11.5.2-from 10 to 15 mm. lucīš fishing — 11.5.3 from 14 to 20 mm. eel fishing 11.5.4 — from 16 up to 18 mm; 11.6. coastal fisheries, the following gear: 11.6.1. separate network and venter (farm) if it exceeds 100 m; 11.6.2. pots (with back) if it exceeds 600 m;

11.6.3. network, if it is of mesh size (except this rule 11.5. specialized fishing referred cases) is less than 40 mm, venter 11.6.4. pots and towed in, if it is of mesh size (except this rule 11.5. specialized fishing referred cases) is less than 35 mm. Note: This rule 11.4. — this paragraph 11.6 gears mesh step determined by measuring the distance between the wet gear up netting 11 received the same row of knots and dividing it by 10.12. To prevent premature wear of the network, allowed: 12.1. affix the lower end of the canvas (tarpaulin), network, fabric or other materials;
12.2. the enhancement of the trawl used sacks (including tapered and cylindrical part), which is prepared from 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 s is less than 40 mm. Bags can be attached to the front and back of the trawl along the edge or between them with one of the following techniques stitch along one of s: a comprehensive range of stitch along one line in length of the codend.
13. Traļo and pull wires allowed in the valve (the dam network) with a smaller mesh size than internal trawl codend. The valve shall be affixed inside the codend or in front of it. 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.
14. Making salmon and sea trout fishing, specialized banned: 14.1. use one fishing vessel more than 600 floating (floating) networks, where the length of each net not exceeding 35 m, measured along the augšvir;
14.2. used simultaneously from one fishing vessel floating longlines (drifting), which together have more than 2,000 hooks;
14.3. to keep the vessel more than 100 reserve floating (floating) networks or 200 Reserve hooks;
14.4. use hook sizes (the shortest distance from Barb to stalk) would be less than 19 mm, 14.5 to fish with such gear in the following periods: 14.5.1. with floating (floating) and floating enkurojam networks, from 15 June to 15 September;
14.5.2. with floating (floating) and the enkurojam line — from 1 April to 15 November;
14.5.3. with floating (floating) networks and floating (floating) longline fisheries in the Gulf of Riga and the coast — throughout the year.
15. Prohibited: 15.1 flounder fishing specialist, process or store ships and other floating means these fish in the period from 1 February to 30 April.
Note the. Making fishing with bottom gear flounder fishing ban period, the total quantity of by-catches of flounder may not for-to provide 10% of the total on the Board or other floating means the weight of the catches.
15.2. the herring fishing in the Gulf of Riga with trawls, from 15 May to 15 June;
15.3. fishing with fishing gear of all kinds throughout the year, Daugava, Gauja Salatsi, River Lielupe and Venta River estuary areas 1000 m range, but the rest of the river and the Canal flows into the 200 m radius of areas — from mouth;
15.4. the coast with all types of gear, from 1 May to 31 May and from 1 October to 30 November, with the exception of lucīš, flounder, herring and stickleback specialized fishing;
15.5. lucīš fishing with trawls, throughout the year, lucīš specialized fishing with traps, from 1 October to 15 April;
15.6. fishing with Danish seines Riga Sea Bay flounder fishing, except in the area of Oviš Horn to kolka Horn;
15.7. flounder fishing with towed cables in places where the depth does not exceed 5 mm. 16. It shall be prohibited to exceed the provisions mentioned in paragraph 17 of the mazizmer amount of by-catch of fish, as well as to accept, handle, transport, store and sell the following species, if their size is less fresh than: sprat (sprattus sprattus baltic), 10 cm, herring (Clupea harengus Membri) Gulf of Riga — 11 cm, smelt (Osmer-eperlan)-11 cm , herring (Clupea harengus Membri): 16 cm, sea perch (Perca fluviatilis): 17 cm, lucīt (zoarces viviparus): 20 cm, flounder (platichthys flesus trachurus): 21 cm, Vimbai (Vimb-vimb)-29 cm, common bream (abramis Brama)-29 cm, ālant (id Leucisc)-29 cm, strap (Tinc-tinc)-29 cm, whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus)-29 cm, turbot (Psett maximum) — 30 cm, cod (Gadus morhua callario): 33 cm, eel (Anguilla Anguilla): 40 cm , pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperc) — 45 cm, Pike (Esox Lucia): 45 cm, brown trout (Salmo trutta) — 50 cm, salmon (Salmo salar) 60 cm.
 
Note 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%.
17. mazizmer fish by-catch allowed volume: the by-catch of cod and flounder — 5% of one hauls (except kontroltralējum) total catch weight;
by-catches of herring and sprat, 15% by number one hauls (except kontroltralējum) catch of each species;
the rest of the by-catch of fish, 5% of the weight of the catch.
The salmon and sea trout catch by-catch is not permissible.
18. The Ministry of transport to the Sea Fisheries Department have the right to: 18.1. by the Latvian Institute of fisheries research recommendations, in coordination with the environmental protection and the Ministry of regional development, to identify measures to regulate fisheries, as well as to stop the fish in some waters stations. Depending on air conditions to determine the fishing ban period up to 15 days earlier or later, but keeping the overall length of the ban and the ban, adopted by the International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission the fishing ban period running from the first to the last ban date;
18.2. in the light of the Latvian Institute of fisheries research and recommendations for the Republic of Latvia catch quotas established by the International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission, as well as coordination with environmental protection and regional development Ministry to impose catch limits or fishing gear and intergovernmental exchange of the quota volume, the split limits to fishermen, and to take a decision on certain species of fish, the fishing suspension if you exceed the limits and quotas fixed amounts;

18.3. after reconciliation with the Fisheries Research Institute, to determine levels of fishing vessels and fishing gear, the number and type of fishing in the maritime waters.
19. The protection of the environment and regional development Ministry authorised officials have the right to: 19.1. to issue fishing licences and to determine their order in the issuing and extension;
19.2. to take measures to limit fishing or complete cessation of breach of these rules;
19.3. to stay on board fishing vessels, ships, fish caught and processed, products, gear and fishing-related examination, and checkout of this necessary information of dossiers;
19.4. to request from the fishermen in the operational information on fishing;
19.5. the port of entry of the vessel to carry out sea fishing vessel cargo inspection.
20. Liability for violation of this provision: 20.1. guilty officials are referred to administratīvāk or criminal liability under applicable law. Prosecution of persons guilty of administrative or criminal responsibility does not exempt them from the obligation to pay the damages, caused to the fish resources, in accordance with the provisions set out in annex 2 of the taxi;
20.2. natural and legal persons that have given instructions or committed any activities that violate these rules, and if they have not taken timely measures to prevent infringements are prosecuted in accordance with applicable law;
20.3. regardless of the appropriate administrative penalties or criminal sanctions that repeated or serious breaches of environmental protection and regional development Ministry authorized officers are empowered to revoke the licence issued. Infringements during fishing, can be the basis of the catch limit for refusal to grant the next year;
20.4. upon the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry officials at the request of the authorised fishing gear and floating means used in violation of these rules, shall be removed from the water and, together with the ' fish until they are transported to the location of the transfer the same infringer or to his account. Floating fishing tools and features used in violation of these rules can be seized, following the laws of;
20.5. the fish obtained in breach of those provisions, irrespective of the place of infringement shall be seized and transferred to design the appropriate documentation, making points or trade organizations for trade prices, and the amount of fish caught off the fisherman's catch limit;
20.6. the loss of natural and legal persons was caused when illegally acquiring the fish are recovered at sea, the amount calculated in accordance with the provisions set out in annex 2 of the taxi.
The Ministry of transport, the Fisheries Department together with the Ministry of finance by matching with the protection of the environment and regional development Ministry is entitled on a quarterly basis to review this provision listed in annex 2 a taxi and to amend the present rates;
20.7. for infringement of the provisions of these recoveries, funds obtained through illegally caught fish, and the amounts charged as consideration for fish resources, damage is included in the environmental protection fund and are used for the recovery of fish stocks, their scientific research and protection.
Prime Minister v. Birkavs traffic Minister a. GŪTMAN in Riga 3 May 1994 in annex 2 of the Cabinet of Ministers 3 May 1994 Regulations No 99 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 Latvian sea fish species damages (in LCY) unit 1.2.
 
 
Sprat, herring, smelt, flounder, pout vimb, snapper, ālant, strap a 0.5 0.5 kg PCs.
 
3. Ling 1.5 PCs.
4. the turbot 1 PCs.
5. the whitefish, cod, eel, Zander 5 PCs.
6. Salmon, sea trout, 25 PCs.
7. Other species of fish referred to in paragraph 16 of these rules 1 kg note. Illegal foreign fishermen fish mining damage can result to pay in convertible currency at the Bank of Latvia exchange rate on the date of the reimbursement of a loss.
Traffic Minister a. GŪTMAN a