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ENVIRONMENTALISTS ALARMING: WHITEFISH RESERVES IN LAKE SEVAN TOTAL SOME 8 TONS
ARMINFO
Friday, April 20, 15:30
Steep decline of fish reserves has become a real trouble for Sevan.
"Whitefish reserves in 2011 totaled some 8-8.5 tons versus 180 tons in
2010. Environmentalists alarm about endangered population of whitefish
in the lake," Bardukh Gabrielyan, Director of the Institute for
Hydro-ecology and Ichthyology, Armenian National Academy of Science,
told ArmInfo.
"Earlier eggs and small fish were enough for self-reproduction of the
population, but now the situation is extremely dangerous. To restore
the population of whitefish it is necessary to import it from other
countries," the expert said. Gabrielyan recalled that in Soviet years
whitefish was imported to Sevan from Ladozhsky Lake and Chudskoe Lake.
Over decades whitefish in Sevan has become a hybrid. "Later, we
exported eggs for Chelyabinsk reservoir. It means that there is
actually our hybrid whitefish there. I think we can import whitefish
right from the Chelyabinsk reservoirs," he said.
Gabrielyan said that the extremely steep reduction of the whitefish
reserves was discussed with the Nature Protection Ministry of Armenia.
"But we have not yet discussed where to import whitefish from,"
he said.
From: A. Papazian
ARMINFO
Friday, April 20, 15:30
Steep decline of fish reserves has become a real trouble for Sevan.
"Whitefish reserves in 2011 totaled some 8-8.5 tons versus 180 tons in
2010. Environmentalists alarm about endangered population of whitefish
in the lake," Bardukh Gabrielyan, Director of the Institute for
Hydro-ecology and Ichthyology, Armenian National Academy of Science,
told ArmInfo.
"Earlier eggs and small fish were enough for self-reproduction of the
population, but now the situation is extremely dangerous. To restore
the population of whitefish it is necessary to import it from other
countries," the expert said. Gabrielyan recalled that in Soviet years
whitefish was imported to Sevan from Ladozhsky Lake and Chudskoe Lake.
Over decades whitefish in Sevan has become a hybrid. "Later, we
exported eggs for Chelyabinsk reservoir. It means that there is
actually our hybrid whitefish there. I think we can import whitefish
right from the Chelyabinsk reservoirs," he said.
Gabrielyan said that the extremely steep reduction of the whitefish
reserves was discussed with the Nature Protection Ministry of Armenia.
"But we have not yet discussed where to import whitefish from,"
he said.
From: A. Papazian