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Federal Agency for Fishery

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4481725 ↗
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The Federal Agency for Fishery (Rosrybolovstvo; Russian: Федеральное агентство по рыболовству (Росрыболовство), romanized: Federal'noye agentstvo po rybolovstvu) is a federal body that exercises oversight over fishing and marine life in waters under the territory of the Russian Federation, excluding internal seas as well as the Caspian and Azov seas. It was formed on May 12, 2008 as part of Russia's Ministry of Agriculture.

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