PROBLEMS OF APPLICATION OF PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH FOR WATER BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN INLAND WATERS
The article reports on analysis of the precautionary approach to water bio resources management of inland waters basic principles applying possibility. Specificity of freshwater fisheries involves complicated structure fisheries, usage of high variety of gears with unknown characteristics of selectivity, irregular distribution of fishes in the area, low reliability of fishery statistics and stock assessment. In this case, it is impossible to use production models, virtual-population analysis. As a result, regulation of fisheries by means of total allowable catch (TAC) cannot be the best approach, and the boundary and buffer reference points do not make sense in a low-intensity of fishing and small variability of fishing effort. Adaptation of the concept of the precautionary approach to the specific conditions of inland water bodies is rather urgent. We propose to use possible catch (BB) and limitation of fishing effort for fishery regulation, as the last is much more easily controlled compared with annual yield.