Mammadli, Azerbaijan News

The agreement on a sturgeon fishing moratorium in the Caspian Sea can be reached within a year, deputy director of the Azerbaijani Scientific Research Institute for Fishery Tariel Mammadli told media on Wednesday.

According to him, one seismic station is functioning now in Julfa. The new stations will be installed in Shahbuz, Ordubad and Sadarak.

A new method of studying seismic activity will be used to determine potential earthquake zones in Azerbaijan's neighbouring countries.

The next meeting of representatives from the five Caspian countries, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Iran and Russia to discuss a moratorium on sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea will be held in Baku in early December, the chief adviser on Caspian biodiversity at Azerbaijan's Ecology Ministry, Tariel Mammadli told Trend on Wednesday.