VOLUM OMAGIAL - Facultatea de Ştiinţe ale Naturii şi Ştiinţe Agricole

Ovidius University Annals of Natural Sciences, Biology – Ecology Series Volume 14, 2010
PROBLEMS OF THE HARMONIZING ENVIRONMENTAL
LEGISLATION AT THE COMPARTMENT "PISCES" IN THE
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
Petru COCIRTA, Olesea GLIGA
Institute of Ecology and Geography (Academy of Sciences of Moldova).
Academy Str. No.1, Chișinău, MD-2028, Republica Moldova
E-mail: pcocirta@hotmail.com, camiprim@inbox.ru
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Abstract: In the paper are presented some results regarding principal characteristics on the structure, qualitative
and comparative analysis of the national acts with EU directives as well with EU and ISO standards. It was
demonstrated the compatibility of some national legislation and normative acts with EU ones. Special attention
was dedicated to the rare and endangered species of fish. It was created databases on environmental legislativenormative
acts of the Republic of Moldova at the compartment “Fishes”, which shows a various and satisfactory
number of acts in this domain. In the final part of the paper are presented some conclusions and proposals on the
development of legislation and norms regarding fish species in the Republic of Moldova in accordance with EU
and international requirements.
Keywords: fishes and environmental legislation and normative acts state.
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1. Introduction
According to the Declaration of Rio de Janeiro
in 1992 and Agenda 21 [1], protection of biological
diversity is one of the global environmental
problems, which depends on addressing the quality of
life and existence of the living organism son the
earth.
Development and conservation of the diversity
of ichthyofauna species are of paramount importance
in the management of biological diversity in the
marsh and aquatic ecosystems in the Republic of
Moldova [2].
In the past 100 years anthropogenic pressure on
aquatic and march ecosystems has changed cardinal
the quantity and quality of aquatic biological
diversity. In Republic of Moldova the aquatic and
marsh (water areas of rivers, lakes, dam lakes, ponds)
ecosystems were limited to 94,6 thousand ha (2.8%
of total territory), and are unevenly distributed and
characterized by a wide variety of ecological,
physical, geographical, hydrochemical,
hydrobiological etc. particularities. Hydrographical
network consists of three main rivers - the Danube,
Dniester and Prut, as well as of 3260 rivulets and
3532 lakes. Most of rives were damaged, destroyed
or channeled. Biodiversity includes 160 flora and
125 fauna (vertebrates) species. Hydrofauna recorded
over 2135 species, including ichthyofauna - 82
species [3-5].
In recent decades the influence of anthropogenic
factors (industrial pollution, eutrophication
progressive, toxicity, reducing water flow, etc.) upon
ecosystems river Dniester and Prut, small rivers in the
territory of the country makes major changes in
biodiversity of the hydro-biocenozes with loses the
viability and biological significance of rivers into the
biosphere and environment.
As a consequence, fish resources, which are one
of the important indicators statuses of the aquatic
ecosystems, decreased sharply in majority natural
water objects of the Republic of Moldova and a
number of species (sterlet, barbel, zarte and others)
are endangered. In the Red Book of the Republic of
Moldova (Second edition, 2001) [6] it was included
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