Ukraine: Anti-poaching raids continue on the country's reservoirs

Over the past week, fish patrols of the State Fisheries Agency have exposed a number of gross violations of fishing rules in the water bodies of Ukraine. In particular, in the water area of the Kakhovsky Reservoir, affected by the actions of the Russian occupiers, the Zaporizhia fish guards, together with the police, recorded citizens mass-fishing aquatic biological resources with 12 nets: fish marauders caught 190 kg of carp, silver crucian carp, perch, pikeperch, walleye, bream, bream, and flatfish , causing 633,000 hryvnias of damage to the fishing industry. Poachers wasted no time in other regions either. State inspectors found the following most high-profile violations: - The Kherson fish patrol exposed an intruder who illegally caught silver crucians, carp and grass carp with a net in the waters of the Tyagin estuary (protected zone of the Nizhnyodniprovsky National Nature Park) and caused 353,000 hryvnias in damages. At the same time, the inspectors cleaned the water area ...