Head of the Council of the Federation Committee for agrarian and food policy and environmental management Gennady Gorbunov on Thursday introduced an initiative to ban the Japanese Drift net fishing in the exclusive economic area of the Russian Federation, informs the administration of Primorsky Krai.

His Proposal Gorbunov announced during the Ninth international Congress of fishermen in Vladivostok.

Country (Japan edit) introduced against Russia their punishment unilaterally. In this regard, in the form of response would be timely to consider doing a full ban on Japanese drift net fishery in the exclusive economic area of the Russian Federation. The Federation Council on the results of the meeting will send the appropriate request to the Federal Agency for fishery, " said Gorbunov.

Deputy Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Federal fishery Agency Ilya Shestakov said that the initiative must be considered." The proposal deserves attention. It is, without a doubt, it is necessary to analyze in detail. On the one hand, the Proposal, of course, affects our fishing industry, but the opposite has quite a serious political issue. For this reason, must be developed With colleagues from other departments, most importantly, With the foreign Ministry, " said the Chairman of the Agency.

The United States in connection With the Ukrainian crisis has introduced a wide range of sanctions on the Russian politicians, businessmen and organizations, as well as lobby for the introduction of similar measures for its associates. Anti-punishment After the United States entered the European Union, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and Japan. In addition, countries of the West lay in the Russian Federation a significant part of the blame for the Ukrainian crisis, for example, accuse it of supporting local militias. Moscow rejects these allegations as unsubstantiated, and in response to punishment restricted food imports from these countries.

Drift-net fishing - drift-net fishing is used to catch fish in the surface water layers.

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