Rosprirodnadzor found no corroboration of mass fall of dolphins at the coast of Anapa

Department of Rosprirodnadzor in Krasnodar region and Adygeia inspected an area in the neighbourhood of Anapa, questioned the divers and found no corroboration of the information received that three tens dead dolphins were found in the water area. 

It should be reminded that on May, 16, it was reported that divers had found a mass burial of dolphins near the peninsula of Bolshoy Utrish at the coast of the Black sea, in the neighbourhood of Anapa. The animals' dead bodies were found during the first submersions of scuba divers of "Sea Club" limited company who arrived in Anapa district for a training session. According to them, all in all about 30 bodies were found. The experts at once moved forward an assumption that it was fishing nets that had caused the animals' death.

However, officials of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor declared on May, 17, that the information of mass fall of dolphins was not confirmed. 

"Yesterday a group of inspectors of the regional department of federal ecologic control at the coast of the Black sea carried out an inspection on location of the coastline territories for a checkup of the information of mass fall of dolphins of "sea-swine" subspecies. No dead bodies of dolphins were found, Department of Rosprirodnadzor reported. 

According to a representative of the office, Deputy Director of "Sea Club" limited company E. Berezhnoy in his written explanation disproved the information published by journalists that his divers found about 30 dead mammals at the coast and in the Black sea near Bolshoy Utrish, "Interfax-Yug" reports.

According to Rustam Mantikov, Chief of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor in Krasnodar region and the republic of Adygeia, only a single case of dolphin's fall was registered in the neibourhood of Novorossiisk and Anapa, "New TV of Kuban" reports.

Evgeny Abramov, Head of the training department of Gelendzhik dolphinarium, said that a possible cause of the dolphin's fall was that the animals usually get exhausted after winter and fish which makes their fodder supplies disappears. "Let us call it natural selection. It has always been and will be so in the future, no matter what we do about it", Abramov emphasized. 

The personnel of Rosprirodnadzor are continuing their inspection in the neighbourhood of Anapa. 

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" reported that several cases of the dolphins' fall were registered in Sochi, in April, 2010. The ecologists suppose that it was connected with the emergency on the bulker terminal in Tuapse which in the ecopogists' opinion resulted in dumping of chemicals into the Black sea and emission of hazardous substances into the atmosphere. However, Pavel Yakovlev, purchase and logistics director of Mineral and Chemical enterprise "Eurochim", disproved the information then that a test loading of the chemical terminal resulted in pollution of environment.