Caspian Sea: State of the Environment 2019

purposes, fishing for aquaculture (fish farming), and amateur and sport fishing. Turkmenistan adopted a law “On fisheries and the conservation of aquatic biological resources” in 2011, along with a host of other environmen- tal policies and pieces of legislation to bolster the impact of the law “On protecting nature”, which sets out the main direction of environmental protection in the country (Kepbanov 2016). Waste management legislation is an important measure for minimizing pollution from land- based sources. Azerbaijan has acceded to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, and the legal framework on hazardous waste has been improved in accordance with the requirements of the convention. New legislation has entered into force in recent years. Regulation of the transboundary movement of hazardous waste strengthened controls to prevent the illegal en- 7.4.2. Waste

of catch quotas for aquatic biological resources, covering, inter alia, commercial fishing, the dis- tribution of the total allowable catch of aquatic biological resources in relation to the catch quota for aquatic biological resources in marine waters or to the international quota granted to the Rus- sian Federation. The Volga-Caspian Branch of the Russian Feder- al Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanogra- phy (CaspNIRKh) is responsible for developing materials to substantiate the total allowable catch of aquatic biological resources in the Southern Fishery Area of the Volga-Caspian Fisheries Ba- sin, providing a biological justification for the total allowable catch forecast and the possible or recommended catch of aquatic biological re- sources. The Fishing Rules for the Volga-Caspian Fisher- ies Basin play an important role in maintaining and restoring valuable commercial species. The rules regulate the catch of aquatic biological re- sources for commercial fishing, coastal fishing, fishing for research and monitoring purposes, fishing for training, cultural and educational

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