State Agency of Fisheries of Ukraine

It supervises the protection, use and reproduction of aquatic biological resources, the regulation of fisheries, maritime safety of fishing fleet vessels and to addresses cases established by Ukrainian legislation on the territory of Ukraine in the Exclusive (maritime) Economic Zone and on its continental shelf, as well as in the exclusive economic zones of other states and in open ocean areas that are under the jurisdiction of international organizations on fisheries management, as well as in those that are outside of any jurisdiction according to the international agreements agreed to by Ukraine.

On 2 November 2006, the State Fishery Committee of Ukraine, a central executive body, was created.

On 8 April 2015, Yarema Kovaliv was appointed Chairman of the State Agency of Fisheries of Ukraine.

In 2015, the Agency began large-scale deregulation: cancellation of 7 permitting documents, which created a basis for corruption;[1] development of the aquaculture and mariculture;[2] prohibition of the industrial fishing in the Dnieper river in Kyiv.

The Agency started the reformation of fish protection authorities, whose quality of work was the reason for public distrust of the department.