Monitoring of the Caspian Sea coast continues. The damage due to the death of marine animals was calculated by the chairman of the regional environmental council for the Mangistau region of the ECOJER association, member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan Adilbek Kozybakov, reports ” Golos Naroda ” with reference to Lada.kz.

According to Andrey Rutskoy, a specialist at the Zhaiyk-Caspian Interregional Basin Inspection of Fisheries, inspectors conduct daily monitoring. As of today, November 23, no dead carcasses have been discarded. The specialist hopes for a positive forecast. In addition, as he noted, the wind direction has changed.

The chairman of the regional environmental council for the Mangistau region of the ECOJER association, member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Adilbek Kozybakov, also spoke about the death of the animals.

“According to the order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 2017, the cost of one seal is estimated at 193 MCI – 712,556 tenge. If you multiply this amount by 2,000 seals, you get 1,425,112,000 tenge (3 million USD).

The Caspian seal was listed in the Red Book in 2020. Criminal liability should automatically occur, and a criminal case should be opened even for one seal. And here there are as many as 2,000 of them – this is an especially large size. I appeal to the authorities: it is necessary to urgently create a commission to investigate this high-profile case. This topic needs to be given a great public resonance. It is necessary to find out the reasons, punish the perpetrators to the fullest extent of the law and, of course, demand compensation for damages,” says Adilbek Kozybakov.

To avoid similar tragedies in the future, the expert advises engaging independent experts who will ensure transparency and openness of the work of certain companies at sea.

Let us recall that on November 12, a blogger filmed dead seals on the Caspian coast. It later became known that 289 seal carcasses were found on the coast of the sea in the Tupkaragan district. With the help of the local executive body, they were collected and transported to the landfill. Toxicological and histological studies of the found seal carcasses were conducted jointly with the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology. Samples of 112 seals were taken.

During one month of monitoring the Caspian Sea coast, 1,155 seal carcasses washed up on the coast were found in the Tupkaragan region alone.

The Caspian seal, the region’s only marine mammal, is listed in the Red Book. In recent decades, its population has declined from a million to less than 70,000 individuals due to poaching, water pollution and climate change.

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