Poachers with fish and caviar worth more than 1.4 million rubles were detained in Kamchatka

Poachers who fished salmon species without a license on the Paratunka, Avacha and Pinachevskaya rivers were detained in the Yelizovsky district of the Kamchatka Territory. This was announced on July 11 by the North-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Fisheries.

"During the inspection, one of the violators found almost 20 kg of salmon roe, the second had nine specimens of sockeye salmon, two specimens of chum salmon and five specimens of char, the third had a specimen of sockeye salmon and pink salmon and 14 specimens of chum salmon. The total damage caused to fish stocks is estimated at over 1.4 million rubles," the agency said in a statement on its official website.

It is noted that all tools, equipment, fish and caviar were seized. Administrative cases were initiated against the poachers under Part 2 of Article 8.37 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of the rules governing fishing").

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Earlier, on June 26, employees of the linear department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the river port of Novosibirsk initiated 11 criminal cases against poachers violating the spawning ban period. The violators caused damage of almost half a million rubles.