The head of the Crimean Ministry of Agriculture reported on the results of the fish study after the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait
Studies of fish in the Black Sea have not revealed any abnormalities related to the oil spill following the tanker disaster in the Kerch Strait last December.
This was stated by the Minister of Agriculture of Crimea Denis Kratyuk , as reported by the correspondent of PolitNavigator.
"There are no problems with aquaculture at all. They already undergo regular analysis; they just have a new range of tests . Aquaculture is unloaded in one place and usually enters the network packaged. No one is going to package products or spend money on goods that might not pass certain criteria.
There were some minor issues raised with the huge number of individual entrepreneurs—fishermen—over 300 of whom can go out to sea from the Black Sea to Sevastopol at any one time. And they all return at different times. We worked out a mechanism with Rospotrebnadzor: the fishermen submit an average batch for analysis . That is, they return to different landing points, collect an average batch of, say, mullet, and submit it for analysis. If anything had been found in any of the samples, firstly, there would have been a serious outcry, and secondly, the fishermen themselves would have reported it. They would have been forced to destroy several tons of fish. This has never been recorded," he noted.
Katyuk linked the anchovy epidemic in Sevastopol in February of this year, when dead fish washed up on the St. Andrew the First-Called embankment, to mismanagement.
"This fish wasn't brought on board in time . It was no longer fit for consumption and was disposed of naturally, to be eaten by seagulls. This has nothing to do with petroleum products."
But overall, the situation is pessimistic. Fuel oil will behave completely differently in warm water, and the volumes are colossal. I think there will be several more spills . But no one remembers that a similar situation happened in 2007, with a roughly similar amount of fuel oil spill. After that, they shouted that nothing would happen there for hundreds of years, but within two years, everyone had forgotten about it," Kratyuk concluded.
The head of the Crimean Ministry of Agriculture reported on the results of a fish study following the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait.