Govt panel to discuss sport fishing and angling arrangements.

MOSCOW, May 25 (Itar-Tass) - The regulation of fishing in inland water
reservoirs and refinement of arrangements for angling and sport fishing in
Russia will be the focus of attention at a Tuesday meeting of the
governmental commission on the development of the fishery sector. The
Commission's meeting will be presided over by First Vice-Premier Viktor
Zubkov.
A government source said priorities in this respect are to raise the
level of the development of inland fresh-water reservoirs (lakes, man-made
water reservoirs, and rivers) and increase the scope of catch of water
bioresources.
As of now, both indicators remains low so far -- they do not exceed 50
percent of the recommended scope and amount on average to not more than
70,000 tonnes a year over the past 20 years.
A rational regulation of fishing must be based on research, the
reproduction of fish in inland fresh-water reservoirs, and the
conservation of the stocks of fish and the environment.
The Commission members are also to discuss Rosrybolovstvo (Federal
Agency for Fishery) proposals on arrangements for work in these fields.
The source said sport fishing and angling are an important component
of the development of the resources of inland water reservoirs. According
to expert estimates, about ten million people in Russia (about 20 percent
of active population) are enthusiastic about such kinds of fishing.

.Caucasus situation, security to be discussed at int'l conf.

YEREVAN, May 25 (Itar-Tass) - "The Situation in the Caucasus and
Prospects for Regional Security" is the theme of an international
conference held here on Tuesday by the Institute for CIS (Commonwealth of
Independent States) Studies (ICS).
The forum is devoted to a discussion of the new geopolitical reality
that has taken shape in the Caucasus area in recent years, the policies of
Southern Caucasus countries, Iran, and Turkey, as well as Russia and other
powers in the region, said ICS Director Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy
Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs of the State Duma lower house of
the Russian parliament.
Participants in the conference are to analyze the problems of regional
security, stability, integration and cooperation, discuss prospects for a
settlement of relations between Armenia and Turkey, and the development of
the process of negotiations on the Karabakh issue, Zatulin pointed out.
Politicians, public figures, and experts from Russia, Azerbaijan,
Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Iran, Turkey, and Canada will
take part in the conference.
Russian participants in the conference include as follows: Vyacheslav
Kovalenko, Ambassador of Russia to Armenia, Sergei Chebotaryov, head of
the department of the RF Presidential Directorate for Interregional and
Cultural Contacts with Foreign Countries, Ambassador Felix Stanevsky, head
of the Caucasus department at the ICS, Ambassador (ret.) Vladimir
Kazimirov, former Russian co-chairman of the Minsk Group of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on
Nagorno-Karabakh, Andranik Migranyan, a political scientist, and director
of the New York Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, and members of
the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

.Soldatov's yacht Gerda keeps third in solo yachting regatta.

VLADIVOSTOK, May 25 (Itar-Tass) - The England-to-USA Jester Challenge
single-handed yachting regatta is currently under way in the North
Atlantic.
The regatta -- which is reckoned among most difficult ones in the
world, for yachts are sailing in defiance of predominant winds and
currents -- is held for a 50th time. Three Russian skippers -- Igor
Zaretsky from Yaroslavl on the yacht Grande, Alexei Fedoruk from Veliky
Novgorod (yacht Fason), and Mikhail Soldatov from Moscow (yacht Gerda) --
are taking part in it for the first time. In all, 23 yachts set out on the
3,200-mile race on Sunday, Oskar Konyukhov, executive director of the
All-Russia Yachting Federation (ARYF), has announced.
The yachts, the length of which, according to the regatta rules,
should not be more than nine metres, set out from the port of Plymouth and
have already covered the first tens of miles. Soldatov's yacht Gerda is
keeping third. A yachting race headquarters has been formed in Moscow to
post information on the progress of the regatta on the ARYF website.
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