Fishing Rights at Stake: Tabatzghour Residents Take Company Owned by MP Ayvazyan to Court

12:40, March 13, 2015

Residents of Tabatzghour, in Georgia's Samtskhe-Javakhk region, have taken a company owned by native son Vardan Ayvazyan, a member of the Armenian parliament to court.

Tabatzghour residents want to stop Ayvazyan from building a fish farming enterprise on a lake in the village. They also want to be granted first fishing rights on the lake.

Ayvazyan's company Ldjer Ltd. leased the lake for fishing. Some of the fish are supposed to wind up at huge fish market and restaurant that Ayvazyan  is building in Tbilisi.

15 village residents showed up at a preliminary hearing at the Tbilisi Municipal Court on March 11 according to our colleagues in the Georgian capital. The court indefinitely postponed the hearing until it decides whether or not to accept the injunction petition.  Read more... (367 words)

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