In Ukraine, during the last week of October, poachers caused more than 10 million hryvnias of damage to the environment.
Poltava, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhia regions became the anti-leader regions, the State Fisheries Agency reports on Facebook.
Thus, in the Poltava Region, fish guards, together with the police and the public, recorded two violations at the Kremenchuk Reservoir. One poacher managed to catch 143 kg of fish with nets, which caused 2.2 million hryvnias in damages. Another attacker illegally caught 227 kg of fish, also with nets, for which he will have to compensate 2.6 million hryvnias in damages.
Also, fish guards of Dnipropetrovsk region discovered "fish marauders" with nets on the Samara River. Losses from their activities reached 160 thousand hryvnias.
In the Sumy region, the fish patrol discovered two poachers on a reservoir in the Okhtyr district, who were mass destroying fish with electric current. They managed to kill 10 kg of carp, perch, white carp and carp. Such fishing caused damage to the environment for 41 thousand hryvnias.
The most high-profile violation occurred in the Zaporizhzhia region. The Fish Patrol, together with the public, saved 1,522 crayfish from poaching conch shells during the melioration trawling of the Kakhovsky Reservoir, which prevented losses in the amount of over 5 million hryvnias.
"We emphasize once again that the country's reservoirs are under the constant control of fish guards and all fish marauders face punishment – from administrative fines to criminal liability, as well as payment of significant sums for the damage caused to aquatic biological resources," the message emphasized.
As EcoPolitic reported before, in Ukraine, poachers inflicted 9 months of 2022 damage to the environment in the amount of more than 41 million hryvnias.
