Specific aspects of the legal regulation of liability for violations in the field of conservation of aquatic biological resources and their habitat

The article discusses the specifics of the legal regulation of liability for offenses in the field of conservation of aquatic biological resources and their habitat. Since unregulated fishing and pollution of water bodies leads to the depletion of aquatic biological resources, the issue of ensuring their conservation, including through legal liability measures, is particularly relevant. The author analyzes the basic rules of law, the violation of which entails liability in the field under consideration, special attention is paid to terminological inaccuracies and a comparison of legal norms having a similar objective side. The purpose of the work is to identify legal conflicts in this area, as well as to develop proposals for improving current legislation to help eliminate them. The methods of comparative legal and system analysis were used. The main conclusions of the study are the proposals formulated by the author to improve legislation, as well as the problems of legal regulation in this area that he discovered. In particular, the need to rename Article 8.48 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation was noted, since at the moment its name is formulated too broadly, which gives rise to terminological conflicts. In addition, the current legislation does not clearly distinguish between the offences provided for in Articles 8.33 and 8.38 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. In accordance with the title of these articles, art. 8.33 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation prohibits violations in the field of habitat protection and migration routes, while Article 8.38 of the Administrative Code protects aquatic biological resources themselves from illegal acts, but at the same time both articles have a similar objective side for the law enforcement officer, which is also confirmed by law enforcement practice. In this regard, there is a need to consolidate at the legislative level the concepts of "protection of the habitat of the resources", "protection of the resources" and specify what the rules for the protection of these natural resources include, and what relates to the rules for the protection of their habitat, for violation of which the offender is responsible, respectively, under Articles 8.38 and 8.33 of the Administrative Code Russian Federation.