Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan agree on zero quota of sturgeon caviar export in 2010

The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has published today the export quotas for caviar and other sturgeon products agreed by the Caspian States for 2010.

The Secretariat informs that the 2010 quotas were agreed by Azerbaijan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan during a meeting held in Tehran.

The quota year for export of caviar and sturgeon meat runs from 1 March 2010 to 28 February 2011. The quantities that can be exported are lower than in 2008, when export quotas were last published.

“The CITES quota system has resulted in the five Caspian Sea States agreeing on common management objectives, as part of a concerted response to improve the state of depleted stocks. The setting of these export quotas once again demonstrates the value of CITES in addressing conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in an effective and practical manner,” CITES secretary-general John Scanlon said.

The countries that share the Black Sea and Lower Danube sturgeon populations (Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia) and the Heilongjiang/Amur River population (China and the Russian Federation) have not yet informed the CITES Secretariat about their quotas for this year.

In 2009, the lack of agreement between the five Caspian countries resulted in a suspension of wild caviar imports from those countries.

Posted by CBN Staff on 30 Jul 2010 [04:22] | Comments 0 |

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