On the shores of the Caspian Sea in the area of the water intake dam, Karazhanbas deposit in the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan, carcasses of dead seals were discovered, local environmental services find out the cause of death, the press service of the Fishery Committee of the Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of Kazakhstan said on Wednesday. >
According to the press service, on the eve, during the monitoring of social networks, information was revealed that about 50 carcasses of dead seals were discovered on the coast of the Caspian Sea in the area of the water intake dam. State inspectors of the regional department of fish inspection left for the alleged place of death.
“22 carcasses of dead seals were found, which are in various places removed from each other. The inspection employees are established whether the carcasses of animals are subject to a laboratory examination to establish the causes of death, since the carcasses in the unfolded state,” the report said in a message that is in the message that is Interfax quotes.
For laboratory tests, samples of water and soil have been selected from the scene of the death of seals, as well as the carcasses of seals themselves for transfer to employees of the Department of Ecology and Veterinary Service, who plan to go to the place of animal deaths, the press service of the committee said.
The mass death of seals in the Caspian occurred in previous years. In 2000, more than 12 thousand seals died in the Kazakhstani area of responsibility of the Caspian. According to one version, the rapid melting of ice led to the fact that the offspring of seals was in the water. From this, young animals developed bacteriological diseases. And in 2007, about a thousand seals died in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian. The reason is the infection of the carnivorous plague virus.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the number of Caspian seals was estimated within 1 million individuals. Over the past hundred years, according to experts, the number of seals has declined to 100 thousand. The Caspian seal in 2020 was entered in the Red Book of Kazakhstan.