Responsibility for offenses related to illegal extraction of aquatic biological resources: problems of terminology

Violations of rules and requirements in the process of extracting the aquatic resources create a risk of destruction of certain types of biological resources, and affect the economic stability of the state. The author discusses the problem of terminological inconsistency of legal norms that establish liability for offenses related to the illegal extraction of aquatic biological resources. Special attention is paid to issues of a conceptual nature in this area, in particular, the use of various terms in legal acts regulating the extraction of aquatic biological resources. The article discusses the legal norms that establish responsibility for the commission of offenses against aquatic biological resources. Special attention is paid to the specifics of the use of terminology in the appointment of administrative and criminal liability for illegal extraction of aquatic biological resources. It is noted that at the moment, the legal norms providing for responsibility for the illegal extraction of aquatic biological resources require changes to them. These changes, in particular, relate to clarifying the wording set out in existing regulatory legal acts, as well as verifying their compliance with the norms governing fishing and the conservation of aquatic biological resources. The author draws attention to the importance of bringing the terminology used to uniformity and fixing at the legislative level the list of mammals (among which the category "marine mammals" stands out) that belong to aquatic biological resources. It is assumed that these measures will affect the elimination of legal conflicts, as well as make legal norms more understandable for both subjects of their application and citizens.

responsibility, illegal extraction, aquatic biological resources, legal regulation, problems of terminology, administrative responsibility, criminal responsibility, environmental offense, crime, fishing