Local fishermen reported oil pollution in Old Nabil Bay.

“Numerous oil slicks covered the surface of the water for about half a kilometer along the western shore of the bay, and a strong smell of oil hung over the water,” describes the ecologist situation Dmitry Lisitsyn.

Stary Nabil Bay stretches out in a narrow strip for 20 km and is part of the larger Nabil Bay of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, one of the most valuable lagoon bays of Sakhalin.

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Oil spills were presumably discovered near one of the facilities at the Nabil oil field. It is owned by NNK-Sakhalinmorneftegaz, a subsidiary of the Independent Oil and Gas Company, which is owned by close Oil magnate Eduard Khudainatov approached Putin.

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Nabil Bay is home to one of the largest populations of the planet's oldest salmon, the endangered Sakhalin taimen, Lisitsyn writes. He has no doubt that the oil is leaking into the water from an onshore oil field.

"Right now, after spawning, taimen have migrated from the rivers into the bay and are actively feeding throughout the entire water area. Another valuable salmon, the masu salmon, is now beginning to spawn through Nabilsky Bay. Numerous endangered Steller's sea eagles, which feed on fish, live here, and thousands of waterfowl have just begun to hatch their chicks in their nests," the ecologist notes. He is preparing an appeal to Rosprirodnadzor and Rosrybolovstvo.