Residents of two districts of Kuban recorded a video appeal asking for an end to the "global catastrophe" of fish deaths.
People Yeisk и Shcherbinovsky districts of Krasnodar Krai gathered on the shore Ei River and recorded a video message. The video shows a riverbed almost completely clogged with dead fish.
"This is an annual problem—for some reason, no one wants to address it," the man says in the video. He claims the authorities are evasive and offer flimsy explanations for the situation.
On in the opinion of residents, fish are dying due to dams, weirs, and locks built by tenants. Another reason could have become lack of clearing of the riverbed, which causes the water to stagnate and the oxygen level in it to drop.
According to preliminary data, in the water area died about 40 tons of fish.
Head of the branch of the Department of Fisheries and Conservation of Aquatic Bioresources Yuri Lyskin reported that specialists have already taken water samples to determine the cause of the fish deaths.