On March 28, 2019, a meeting of expert (working) groups on ecological issues from Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova was held at the office of the OSCE Mission in Kishinev.
During the event, on the initiative of the Pridnestrovian side, a number of issues related to the provision and implementation of measures for the conservation and rational use of water biological resources of the Dniester River were discussed.
In particular, the experts of the parties made an agreed decision to synchronize the terms of the ban on fishing in the Dniester River during spawning (between April 15 to June 15 this year) and agreed to amend the relevant internal regulations if necessary. The Pridnestrovian side emphasized the need to develop acceptable parameters from the point of view of the ichthyofauna for the implementation of environmental flows on the Dniester River.
Pridnestrovian experts paid special attention to the activities carried out by the relevant institutions of PMR on stocking the river with commercial fishery species and called on the Moldovan side to carry out similar activities on a regular basis.
The parties summed up the results of the implementation of the Protocol "On cooperation of Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova in the field of regulation of fisheries and rational use of aquatic biological resources of the Dniester River" and, taking into account the identified issues with the Moldovan side performing of its separate paragraphs, agreed on the need for unfailing implementation with the provisions of the document.
Other environmental issues were also discussed during the discussion.
