Primorye: Three Belukhi disappeared from the "whale prison"

From the aviary in the Middle Bay in the Primorsky Territory, known as the "whale prison", three belugas disappeared, confirmed to Interfax in the Investigative Committee on the region. Ecologists reported the editorial offices of Siberia. Reals that they knew about this before, but were waiting for official confirmation from departments. Activists are sure that the cubs Beluh died.

"It was established that the number of individuals of Belukh in the aviary is 87," the trackers in Primorye said. At the same time, it was previously officially reported that in the Middle Bay there are 11 braids and 90 beluga.

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The investigation believes that the animals sailed away by damaging the network, reports news agency with reference to an informed source. However, environmentalists do not consider this version of a wealthy.

“Why didn’t all the others run away? And who damaged these networks? Belushats who disappeared, even there were no teeth. And what a coincidence: the most exhausted animals have disappeared, which, apparently, could not feed. This term Skinov means“ to make mammals to eat dead fish, ”the first time caught,” the editors of Siberia. Roads said the head of the regional public Organizations "Ecological Watch of Sakhalin" Dmitry Lisitsyn.

On the perimeter of the “whale prison”, video cameras are installed, so the “escape” should be filmed, ecologists say. In the opposite case, according to them, this speaks in favor of the version of the death of animals.

At the end of November, the court in Vladivostok arrested 11 killer whales and 90 belugas found by zoo defenders in Nakhodka. Zoojeters suggest that animals were caught for sale to China. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of illegal catch.

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 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.

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.

A week later, the press service of the Federal Agency for Roster, Departments issuing quotas for the catch of marine animals, said that they received the warning of the Prosecutor General on 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.