Information on the death of the Caspian seal in the Caspian Sea
: On October 15, 2023 at 10-40 O'clock, employees of the Department of Fish Inspection of the Ural-Caspian interregional Basin fisheries inspection in Mangystau region during monitoring of the coast of the Caspian Sea found 25 dead seal carcasses and 33 pieces of sturgeon fish near the village of Bautino in Tupkaragan district.
It should be noted that the carcasses of sea animals and fish found were decomposed to different degrees, which indicates that their death occurred at different times.
According to the current interaction scheme, all members of the Working Group (local executive bodies, specialized scientific organizations, the Center for research and rehabilitation of the Caspian seal, the Institute of Hydrobiology and ecology, the Kazakhstan agency for Applied Ecology, the research and Production Center for Microbiology and virology, the veterinary service of the region, the Departments of Ecology and police, the prosecutor's Office of nature protection) were notified of this fact.
The Working Group on the site of the seal discovery is headed by the deputy head of the Ural-Caspian interregional fisheries Basin inspection. Currently, the remaining members of the Working Group are expected to arrive to take water, air, soil samples and, if possible, to take samples from the tissues of dead animals and fish.
A criminal case was opened on the fact of the disappearance of rare and endangered species of animals.
Additional information will be provided as it arrives.
For reference: according to the results of the census conducted by the employees of the Kazakhstan agency for Applied Ecology in the water area of the Kazakh and Russian sectors of the Caspian Sea together with Russian scientific institutions for the period of concentration of seals in the winter period of late 2022 and early 2023, the total number of seals calculated is 259,872 (in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea - 240,168, in the Russian sector - 19,704).
It should be noted that the carcasses of sea animals and fish found were decomposed to different degrees, which indicates that their death occurred at different times.
According to the current interaction scheme, all members of the Working Group (local executive bodies, specialized scientific organizations, the Center for research and rehabilitation of the Caspian seal, the Institute of Hydrobiology and ecology, the Kazakhstan agency for Applied Ecology, the research and Production Center for Microbiology and virology, the veterinary service of the region, the Departments of Ecology and police, the prosecutor's Office of nature protection) were notified of this fact.
The Working Group on the site of the seal discovery is headed by the deputy head of the Ural-Caspian interregional fisheries Basin inspection. Currently, the remaining members of the Working Group are expected to arrive to take water, air, soil samples and, if possible, to take samples from the tissues of dead animals and fish.
A criminal case was opened on the fact of the disappearance of rare and endangered species of animals.
Additional information will be provided as it arrives.
For reference: according to the results of the census conducted by the employees of the Kazakhstan agency for Applied Ecology in the water area of the Kazakh and Russian sectors of the Caspian Sea together with Russian scientific institutions for the period of concentration of seals in the winter period of late 2022 and early 2023, the total number of seals calculated is 259,872 (in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea - 240,168, in the Russian sector - 19,704).