Unlawful fishing — what Article 300 provides
Article 300 of the Criminal Code of Georgia regulates liability for the unlawful obtaining of fish or other living organisms of the water. This norm belongs to the group of environmental crimes and protects aquatic bioresources. Its compositions differ both by the method of obtaining and by the object — the species included in the Red Book of Georgia are protected especially.
The first part of the law concerns a person who has already been subjected to an administrative penalty for an administrative offence and who unlawfully takes fish or other living organisms of the water from a water transport vessel of a defined capacity and length, or takes a species included in the Red Book. The text of the law precisely defines the parameters of these vessels: with a total capacity of one hundred tons or less than one hundred tons and a length of eight metres or more than eight metres, or with a total capacity of more than one hundred tons.