More than 6,000 juvenile whitefish were released into the Curonian Lagoon as compensation for damage caused to nature by Polex-Aqua LLC specialists, the press service of the Kaliningrad administration reported on June 21 in the VKontakte social network.
The release was carried out on June 20 at sunset, so that the fry did not become prey for seagulls and cormorants. This was done with funds from the city budget as compensation for damage caused to aquatic biological resources during the construction of a collector in the southeastern microdistrict. Then on the bed of the Pregolya river.
“Then the workers made some noise on the bed of the Pregolya river and, accordingly, Rosrybolovstvo calculated an approximate damage for us from this. This is a white fish, it is a salmon, in 3-4 years it will feed in the sea and return to its native shores to spawn. According to the regulations, regional water bodies are populated with endangered species. The whitefish will not be able to survive in Pregol, so they release it into the bay.” – the message said.
Recall that it was previously reported that on June 18, 28 thousand whitefish fry were released into the Krushsky Bay as compensation for the damage caused during the cleaning of the bed of the Promyslovaya river and the Litovsky stream in Kaliningrad.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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