(1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, supplemented, SG No. 89/1986, amended, SG No.
86/1991, SG No. 85/1997) A person who kills or catches without a due permit big game, shall be
punished by imprisonment for up to one year, or by a fine from BGN one hundred to three
hundred, as well as by deprivation of the right under Article 37 (1), sub-paragraph 7.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, supplemented, SG No. 89/1986, amended, SG No.
86/1991, SG No. 85/1997) A person who without a hunting license, kills or catches small game,
expressly specified in the Hunting Act, as well as a person who, although possessing a hunting
license, kills or catches such game in the closed season, at a prohibited location or by prohibited
means, shall be punished by probation for up to six months or by a fine of from BGN one
hundred to three hundred, as well as by deprivation of right under Article 37 (1), sub-paragraph
7.
(3) The game killed or caught shall be confiscated in favour of the state, and if it is missing
or appropriated, a sum equal to its value shall be adjudged.
Article 238
(Amended and supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, supplemented, SG No. 89/1986, amended,
SG No. 86/1991, SG No. 85/1997, amended and supplemented, SG No. 27/2009, amended, SG
No. 55/2018)
(1) A person who fishes, catches fish and/or other aquatic organisms, with explosive,
poisonous or dazzling substances shall be punished by imprisonment for up to one year and by a
fine from BGN ten thousand to fifteen thousand, as well as by deprivation:
(2) A person who fishes, catches fish and/or other aquatic organisms:
1. with technical devices and equipment for catching that uses electric current without a
valid permit;
2. using fishing nets in sites other than the Black Sea, the Danube River and the sites for
which the person has a registration under Article 25 of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Act, and
such person has two or more effective penal decrees for administrative violations under the
Fisheries and Aquaculture Act;
3. in restricted areas or where there is insufficiency of water;
4. in non-industrial waters during the reproduction period of fish;
5. of species prohibited to catch, shall be punishable by imprisonment of up to six months
and a fine from BGN five thousand to BGN ten thousand, or by probation.
(3) A crime under Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be punishable by imprisonment from one to
three years and a fine from BGN fifteen to twenty thousand, where:
1. it was committed by two or more individuals who have conspired in advance for its
perpetration;
2. it was committed in complicity with an employee of the Executive Agency for Fisheries
and Aquaculture, which has benefited from their position;
3. the act has been committed repeatedly;
4. the object of crime qualifies as a large quantity.
(4) The catch of fish, the other aquatic organisms caught, as well as the tools and means
with which the crime has been committed, shall be confiscated in favour of the state.
Article 239
(1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, amended and supplemented, SG No. 86/1991, amended,
SG No. 85/1997, SG No. 27/2009) A manager of an enterprise, institution, organisation, or