Rosselkhoznadzor found no contamination in fish from the Black and Azov seas
Fish caught in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov do not contain contamination caused by oil product spills. This was reported on January 22 on the website of Rosselkhoznadzor.
It noted that in order to monitor the contamination of fish products with fuel oil and to warn the population, samples were taken in Kerch, Feodosia, Sevastopol and Kherson region on January 15.
"According to the laboratory tests conducted by the FGBU "National Center for the safety of fish and agricultural products", fish contamination from the fuel oil spill was not detected, safety indicators are within the permissible norm", - stated in the message of the Department.
It is specified that chilled pelengas, flounder, horse mackerel and perch, as well as frozen tulka, hamsa and horse mackerel were examined.
In addition, a sample of hamsa was taken, thrown from the Black Sea to the shore in Sevastopol.
The day before it was reported that on the shore of the Azov Sea in the Krasnodar region after the accident with tankers again recorded emissions of fuel oil, the monitoring zone of beaches was extended to 265 km. By Tuesday morning, specialists managed to clean 6 km of the shore and collected 150 kilograms of contaminated soil.
The tankers Volgoneft-212 andVolgoneft-239crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, 2024 due to bad weather. The incident resulted in a spill of oil products. 27 people were evacuated from both vessels, one person died. On the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a working group was set up to coordinate work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency.
On January 2, 2025, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation reported that 2.4 thousand tons of oil products fell into the Black Sea. The next day the oil slick was found at the entrance to Balaklava Bay off the coast of Sevastopol. After the city declared a state of emergency of regional character. It also became known that fuel oil moved northward along the coast of Crimea.
On January 11, in the Black Sea region of Crimea introduced a state of emergency threat regime of a municipal nature because of the identified fuel oil stains.
