Primorye: The court arrested the wandations and beluga caught for sale

The court in Vladivostok arrested 11 killer whales and 90 belugas found by zoois -defenders in the find. Zoojeters suggest that animals were caught for sale to China. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of illegal catch.

The arrest of animals was reported by VL.ru and the non -profit organization “Council for Marine Mammals”. The court decision was made on November 21, but it became known about it today from the letter of the Investigative Committee to Rosprirodnadzor.

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At the end of October, it became known that the average bay in the remote area of the find contains 11 killer whales and 90 belugas caught in Russian waters. According to the Russian Greenpeace, animal owners planned to sell them to Chinese oceanariums. The commercial mining of dolphins in Russia is prohibited by law, but the animals were caught by cultural and educational quota. At the same time, the price of one killer whale in dolphinaries and oceanariums in China reaches one to $ 15 million.

The catch of animals caused a sharp protest of ecologists. On November 16, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of illegal catching killer whales and Belukh. According to the agency, mammals are cubs, and their extraction is prohibited.

On Thursday, the press service of the Federal Agency for Roster, Department issuing quotas for the heads of marine animals, said that the department received a warning of the Prosecutor General about the inadmissibility of violations of the law when granting the rights to catch cultural and educational purposes. In Rosrybolovstvo, in response, they stated that all quotas were issued legally.