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Concealment of fish production

Nowadays, concealment of the fish production in the Aydar-Arnasay lakes and other natural reservoirs in Uzbekistan is one of the large-scale urgent problems of the fish industry. A huge gap between the expenditure and revenue sides is considered to be one of the central reasons of the concealment of commercial fish from its registration in the final documentation.

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Specifically, this has become noticeable over the last two years (Karimov 2008). Based on calculated expenses attributed to fisheries in the Arnasay lakes (Kamilov and Kurambayeva 2008) the author has reviewed that the expenses consisted of two main parts: a) revenue side received from commercially extracted fish, and b) expenditure side related to the rental payments for reservoir use. Calculations demonstrated that rental payments amounted to 31% in 2004, 33.8% - 2005, 39.6% - 2006, and 72.8% - 2007 (Kamilov and Kurambayeva
2008).
Also it has been discovered that if the additional expenses such as salary, fish equipment, alimentation, different taxes and allocations are taken into consideration, expenditures will increase even more and farmers will not have floating assets for conducting
measures stated in the regulation № 350 08/13/2003 “Measures on enhancing of
demonopolization and privatization in the fish industry” (Kamilov and Kurambayeva 2008).
From the Kurbanov’ article “The importance of development the fishery farms with high potential in the system of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan” it has been analyzed that farmers need to have floating assets for the rental payments next year, equipment purchase, salary and other expenses. To cover these expenses farmers have to conceal commercially produced fish from its registration in the final documentation. It is notable that the additional expenses are paid by farmers not from the private means, but from their unaccounted fish catch. All additional expenses connected to the rental reservoir payments could be used for fish farms construction, growing of breeding stock, and stocking of lakes (Kurbanov 2008).
Summarizing, the author found out that to conserve fish resources in Aydar-Arnasay lakes it is necessary to introduce strictly limited volume of fish catch. Besides, payments for fish caught should be accomplished in accordance with the procedure described in Annex №1 of the regulation № 508 04/28/2004 “On strengthening control for rational use of biological resources and its import and export” adopted by Uzbekistan Cabinet Council (Chembarisov, Reumov et al. 2006). Taking into account all expenses provided above, it is essential to emphasize that introduction of limited volume of fish catch in Arnasay lakes will merely allow to set up control of fish extraction and reduce a part of expenses, but the main problem,
i.e. large scale fish theft will remain (Shohimardonov 2008).

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