Poaching is main threat to endangered sturgeon in lower Danube panda.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from panda.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Only days after Romanian enforcement authorities reported a big operation against illegal fishing along the Danube River and in the Delta seizing 2 tonnes of fish, including sturgeon, WWF concluded an analysis of seizures recorded in 2021. Data collected by enforcement authorities in Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine underlines that poaching remains a serious threat to wild sturgeon. […]
Romania bans fishing and sale of wild sturgeon indefinitely
April 29, 2021
Romania has banned the fishing and sale of wild sturgeon indefinitely. But according to the WWF, bans are not enough.
Hot on the heels of the release of the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) recent sturgeon market survey, which detailed the systemic poaching of critically-endangered sturgeon along the Lower Danube, Romania has indefinitely extended its five-year temporary ban the fishing and sale of all six wild sturgeon species and wild sturgeon products.
The decision follows a long campaign by WWF and many other conservation organisations. Romania has now joined other countries in the region where sturgeon fishing has been permanently banned.
Press Release – WWF Central And Eastern Europe While the fragmentation of rivers by transversal structures like hydropower dams pose a threat to natural fish populations if they are no longer able to migrate between important habitats, poaching remains one of the significant causes of the dinosaurs …
While the fragmentation of rivers by transversal structures like hydropower dams pose a threat to natural fish populations if they are no longer able to migrate between important habitats, poaching remains one of the significant causes of the “dinosaurs of the Danube” nearing extinction.
26 April 2021
– Hot on the heels of the release of WWF’s sturgeon market survey last week that detailed the systemic poaching of critically endangered sturgeon along the Lower Danube, there is some fantastic conservation news from Romania.