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UNDP Project Document Governments of: Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation & Turkmenistan United Nations Development Programme PIMS #4058 The Caspian Sea: Restoring Depleted Fisheries and Consolidation of a Permanent Regional Environmental Governance Framework “CaspEco” This project builds upon a solid foundation of regional cooperation for Caspian environmental conservation put in place by the five Caspian states and the Caspian Environment Program over a period of more than 10 years with substantial catalytic support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Building on these achievements this project’s objective is to strengthen regional environmental governance and apply new thinking to the sustainable management and conservation of the Caspian’s bioresources. The project supports the littoral states' efforts to halt the decline in bioresources and to restore depleted fisheries in the Caspian Sea, through the implementation of agreed actions defined in the Caspian Strategic Action Plan (SAP), and to fully operationalize and make the Caspian Sea’s regional environmental governance mechanism sustainable. In line with the new GEF priorities, the major focus of GEF involvement will be to assist the countries to agree on the political commitments made to ecosystem-based joint action on sustainable fisheries and bioresources and introduce institutions and reforms to catalyze implementation of policies reducing over-fishing and benefiting communities. There are two main components of the project: 1) Ecosystem based management of aquatic bioresources; and 2) Strengthened regional environmental governance. The key outcomes sought under the two main components are: 1) Improved ecosystem-based aquatic bioresources management; Invasive species mitigation; Implemented policies & measures to increase reproductive success of Caspian’s diadromous fish species; Application of circum-Caspian approach to habitat conservation; and increased; Coastal communities participate in and contribute measurably to improved bioresources conservation; and 2) Operational and sustainable Tehran Convention institutions; Coordination and synergy with other projects and activities including effective donor coordination and engagement; Implementation of Strategic Convention Action Plan (SCAP) at regional level and NSCAP at national/sub-national level; Enhanced stakeholders’ engagement in the Tehran Convention process and improved public access to information. (Dec04) 1 Table of Contents 1 ACRONYMS 3 NOTE : THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT, INCLUDING SCIENTIFIC AND LEGAL INFORMATION , DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE POSITION OF THE COUNTRIES. 6 SECTION I: ELABORATION OF THE NARRATIVE 7 PART I: Situation Analysis..........................................................................................................................................7 1.1 Context and global significance...........................................................................................................................7 1.2 Socio-economic Context: ..................................................................................................................................10 1.3 The problem to be addressed. ............................................................................................................................11 1.4 Threats, root causes and barriers analysis..........................................................................................................11 1.5 Stakeholder analysis...........................................................................................................................................15 1.6 Baseline analysis................................................................................................................................................16 PART II: Strategy.......................................................................................................................................................22 2.1 Institutional, law and policy context..................................................................................................................22 2.2 Project Rationale and Policy Conformity...........................................................................................................26 2.3 Project Goal, Objective, Outcomes and Outputs/activities................................................................................28 2.4 Project Indicators, Risks and Assumptions........................................................................................................43 2.5 Incremental reasoning and expected global, national and local benefits...........................................................45 2.6 Country Ownership: Country Eligibility and Country Drivenness....................................................................46 2.7 Relevance to UNDP mandate. ...........................................................................................................................48 2.8 Sustainability......................................................................................................................................................48 2.9 Replicability.......................................................................................................................................................49 PART III: Management Arrangements....................................................................................................................49 PART IV: Monitoring and Evaluation Plan and Budget........................................................................................51 PART V: Legal Context ............................................................................................................................................56 SECTION II: STRATEGIC RESULTS FRAMEWORK AND GEF INCREMENT 56 PART I: Incremental Reasoning...............................................................................................................................56 Part II: Strategic Results Framework. .....................................................................................................................61 SECTION III: TOTAL BUDGET AND WORKPLAN 67 SECTION IV: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 83 PART I: Letters of Endorsement and Financial Commitment. ............................................................................83 To be attached as a separate document....................................................................................................................83 2 PART II: Terms of Reference for Key Project Staff...............................................................................................84 PART III: Stakeholder Involvement Plan...............................................................................................................97 Part IV: Analysis of Stress on Caspian Sea Ecosystem Health/Sources of Stress and Underlying Causes. ...113 Part V: Parallel Co-funded Partner Activities. ....................................................................................................116 Acronyms AZ Azerbaijan APR Annual Project Review CC Caspi-Control Environmental Monitoring Organization (Turkmenistan) CAB Commission on Aquatic Bioresources (for the Caspian Sea) CaspEco Short name for full project name: “The Caspian Sea: Restoring Depleted Fisheries and Consolidation of a Permanent Regional Environmental Governance Framework” CaspNIRKh Caspian Scientific Research Institute for Fisheries (Astrakhan, Russian Federation) CaspMNITz Caspian Marine Scientific Research Center (Russian Federation) CISS Caspian International Seal Survey CP Country Programme CSCN Caspian Seal Conservation Network DSU Dagestan State University (Russian Federation) DI Darwin Initiative DIAE Dagestan Institute of Applied Ecology (Russian Federation) EB Ecosystem-based EBM Ecosystem-based Management EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development EEA European Environment Agency EFH Essential Fish Habitat EwE Ecopath with Ecosim ecological modeling software ERA Ecological Risk Assessment FAF Federal Agency on Fishing, Ministry of Agriculture (Russian Federation) FAO Food and Agriculture Organization FBE Fisheries and Bioresources Expert GRID Global Resource Information Database GEF Global Environment Facility GloBallast GEF-UNDP-IMO Global Ballast Water Management Programme GOIN State Oceanographic Institute (Russian Federation) IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency IFI International Funding Institutions IFO Iranian Fishery Organization IFRO Iranian Fishery Research Organization IMCM Inter-Ministerial Coordination Mechanism IMO International Maritime Organization IoO Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences IR-I Islamic Republic of Iran ISRI International Sturgeon Research Institute (Iran) IWC GEF Biennial International Waters Conference IWEN International Waters Experience Notes (GEF) IWRM Integrated Water Resources Management 3 JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency KMG KazMunaiGaz (National Oil and Gas Company of Kazakhstan) KZ Kazakhstan LBS Land-based sources of pollution Protocol to the Tehran Convention M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MNP Ministry of Nature Protection (Turkmenistan) MNRE Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology (Russian Federation) MoE Ministry of Environment (Kazakhstan) MoENR Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (Azerbaijan) MoT Ministry of Transport (Russian Federation) MPCSA State Marine Pollution Control Salvage and Rescue
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    Protistology 12 (1), 12–37 (2018) Protistology Annotated list of species of the Microsporidia described in the Former Soviet Union and Russia in 20th century (1967–2000) Yuliya Y. Sokolova 1,4, Irma V. Issi 2 and Vladimir N. Voronin3 1 Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia 2 All-Russian Institute for Plant Protection, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia 3 Berg State Research Institute on Lake and River Fisheries, St. Petersburg, Russia 4 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA | Submitted February 17, 2018 | Accepted March 7, 2018 | Summary The annotated list contains 118 species of microsporidia (phylum Microsporidia Balbiani 1982) described in Russia and other States of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) during the last decades of the 20th century (1967–2000). These species are distributed among 46 genera, 20 of which were new for science at the time of description. The described microsporidia parasitize about 100 hosts belonging to major groups of freshwater and terrestrial invertebrates and fish. The goal of this publication is to draw the attention of the international community to microsporidia taxa described in Russia and FSU during the era of the “iron curtain”. Many of the taxa comprising the list, are poorly known because the descriptions would be published in Russian, often in hardly available editions. The list reflects the abundance of microsporidia and breadth of their distribution among various hosts and biocenoses. We hope that publication of the list stimulates the interest of young microsporidiologists working on the territory of FSU, to the species described by their predecessors.
  • SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC REPORT- FISHERIES Na 327

    SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC REPORT- FISHERIES Na 327

    327 HERRING OF THE NORTH EUROPEAN BASIN AND ADJACENT SEAS Translations from the Russian Laboratory*. < Marine Biclogical LMAR2T1S60 I V.'OODS HOLE; MASS. SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC REPORT- FISHERIES Na 327 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE United States Department of the Interior, Fred A. Seaton, Secretary Fish and Wildlife Service, Arnie J. Suomela, Director SEL'DI SEVERO-EVROPEYSKOGO BASSEYNA I SMEZH^fYKH MOREY THE HERRING OF THE NORTH EUROPEAN BASIN AND ADJACENT SEAS Translations from the Russian Polyarnyy nauchno-issledovatel'skiy institut mor- skogo rybnogo khozyaystva i okeanografii , Murmansk, . 1956, Vypusk 9. Edited by Leslie W. Scattergood Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory Boothbay Harbor, Maine United States Fish and Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report — Fisheries No. 327 Washington, D. C. November 1959 CONTENTS Page Editor's Preface to Translations. 1 Preface 3 The Fundamental Stage of the Life-cycle of Atlantic -Scandinavian Herring - by Yu. Yu. Marti 5 Chart of Constant Currents in the Norwegian and Greenland Seas - by A. P. Alekseev and B. V. Istoshin 69 Plankton as an Indicator of Waters of Different Origins - by V. D. Abramova ... 77 Seasonal Changes in Plankton and Feeding Migrations of Herring - by E. A. Pavshtiks 104 Data on the Food of the Atlantic Herring - by V. A. Rudakova. 140 Investigation into the Life-cycle of Summer -spawning Herring of Iceland - by K. A. Liamin. 166 The Ovogenesis and Ecology of the Sexual Cycle of the Murmansk Herring (Clupea Harengus Harengus L.) - by V. M. Naumov 203 Experimental Tagging of Herring in Kandalaksha Bay in 1953-1954 - by A.
  • The Caspian Sea - Enclosed and with Many Endemic Species

    The Caspian Sea - Enclosed and with Many Endemic Species

    European Environment Agency Europe's biodiversity - biogeographical regions and seas Seas around Europe The Caspian Sea - enclosed and with many endemic species Author: Vladimir Mamaev, Woods Hole Group, Inc. Map production: UNEP/GRID Warsaw (final production) EEA Project Manager: Anita Künitzer (final edition) CONTENTS Summary 3 1 What are the characteristics of the Caspian Sea? 4 1.1 General characteristics 4 1.1.1 Coastlines 4 1.1.2 Water level fluctuations 5 1.1.3 Currents 6 1.1.4 Rivers 6 1.1.5 Climate 6 1.1.6 Population 6 1.2 Main influences 6 1.3 Main political instruments 7 1.4 Biodiversity status 7 1.4.1 Plankton and Benthos 8 1.4.2 Large Fauna 8 1.5 Fisheries and other living marine resources 9 2 What is happening to biodiversity in the Caspian Sea? 11 2.1 Contaminants 11 2.2 Sea level fluctuation 12 2.3 River regulation 13 2.4 Poaching and overfishing 13 2.5 Alien species 13 3 Policies at work in the Caspian Sea 14 3.1 Nature protection 14 3.1.1 International collaboration 14 3.1.2 Protected areas 16 3.1.3 Red List species 21 3.2 Protection of marine resources by restrictions on fishing and hunting 23 3.3 Research projects and monitoring programmes 23 Bibliography 24 Summary S The Caspian is the largest enclosed sea in the world. S It is brackish, with salinity up to 13.7 ‰. S Significant changes in water levels occur. These, combined with the presence of large shallow areas, constitute a potential threat to biodiversity and especially to the many endemic species.