Mykola Tomenko: Now that the Fishing Season has started, the Cabinet of Ministers should urgently take Action to implement the Anti-Poaching Law
Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, appealed to the Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine with a request to take action to facilitate implementation of the Law of Ukraine on poaching counteraction.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law on Amendments to the Law "On Fauna" (re Strengthening of Poaching Counteraction) (Reg. No. 6458-1) on May 112, 2011. The bill was submitted by People´s Deputies M.Tomenko, A.Semynoha, V.Danylenko, and O.Horoshkevych on the initiative of several environmental organizations. The Law prohibits manufacture, sale and use of poaching tools, and import of traps, electric fishing systems (electric fishing rods) and synthetic nets in Ukraine. The Law prohibits manufacture, sale and use of poisonous and anaesthetic agents, barbed, leadening and trap-like tools of catching, electric fishing systems (electric fishing rod), explosives, bird lime and synthetic nets. The Cabinet of Ministers ratifies the exhaustive list of prohibited tools and the procedure of their confiscation.
M. Tomenko is convinced that with the start of fishing and hunting seasons in Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers shall take action to support implementation of the adopted Law and adopt the normative acts to facilitate its realization.