In Kyiv they understand only threats and fists: fishermen are knocking out licenses from the Ministry of Agriculture (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Kyiv, December 29 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – Several hundred fishermen picketed the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine and blocked Khreshchatyk, demanding the resumption of issuing licenses for industrial fishing.
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“Fishermen of the Dnieper and all reservoirs have gathered to fight for their constitutional right - the right to work, which they want to deprive us of,” Elena Krikun, a representative of the fishermen of the Kaniv Reservoir, told a PolitNavigator correspondent. “We will be left without jobs, the country will be left without taxes and cheap fish.” This is the first time that we have not been approved for limits on industrial fishing along the entire Dnieper cascade.”
However, the main street of the capital did not remain blocked for long - after negotiations with law enforcement officers, the protesters retreated to the sidewalk. Another part of the action participants entered the ministry hall and demanded a meeting with the leadership.
Only after passions began to heat up, and the fishermen declared that they were ready to enter through the passage by force, was the initiative group allowed to enter.
“This year we were refused to sign quotas, citing the difficult situation in the country and the impossibility of controlling the catch,” says Igor Malevany, a fisherman from Cherkassy. – But this is not true - at the moment, the fishery is controlled by about seven different bodies, and poaching in the fishing areas is completely absent. Fishermen are engaged in spawning nests and stocking of fish both at their own expense and at the expense of the state, which, however, has recently allocated practically no funds.”
As a result of the negotiations, the fishermen were promised by the ministry that all necessary documents would be signed before the new year, and commercial fishing would resume in January.
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