In the Odesa region, in the national natural park "Tuzlovsk estuaries", poachers who fished in the Jantshey estuary for about 500 thousand hryvnias were detained.
Violators were detained by a joint unit of the State Guard Service of the National Park, the Water Police and the Coast Guard, Ivan Rusev, a biologist and ecologist from "Tuzlovsky Limany", reports on Facebook.
He said that one of the poachers was already fishing in the territory of the national park in December 2022.
"He and his partner went out on a boat under the "surveillance" of border guards and when the Tatarbunar police and the investigative team simply disappeared from the scene of the crime. And the police and border guards didn't help the national park at that time," Rusev noted.
The ecologist added that two criminal proceedings were registered against poachers in "Tuzlovsky estuaries".
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that almost 50 thousand dolphins died during March-October due to the fact that active fighting continued on the territory of the Black Sea coast of Ukraine. Dead animals were often washed up on the coast of the Tuzlovsk estuary national park.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, a fish inspector from Odesa will be tried for systematic bribes that the man demanded for fishing permits in the waters of the Shabolat estuary during spawning.
