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Total of 4 tons of salmon confiscated from poachers in Kamchatka.
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, July 30 (Itar-Tass) - Policemen in Kamchatka have confiscated four tons of salmon fishes from poachers.
The produce had been bailed and an investigation has begun, the pressservice of the Kamchatka territory's Interior department said.
The consignment of fish was arrested when it was being carried by a truck from the fishing area on the peninsula's eastern coast to theadministrative center of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The truck drivers failed to present any documents confirming theorigins of the consignment to the police.
Fishing of Pacific salmon is in full swing in Kamchatka now, as the salmon comes to the local rivers and lakes for spawning during the secondhalf of summer.
Annually, authorized producers produce dozens of thousands of tons of salmon and tons of delicacy salmon roe, also known in Russia and someother countries as red caviar.
Official trading provides an important source of revenues to localbudgets of all levels.
However, poachers working alone or in whole cartels become especially active in this period of time, too, and the authorities also register production of fish and caviar above the authorized limits by authorizedcompanies.
The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision instituted 32 criminal cases last summer over offenses in the fishingindustry and issued fines totaling more than 8.5 million rubles.
The northeast branch of Russia's Coastal Guards detained 15 ships that engaged in illegal production of salmon and opened 2 criminal and 107 administrative cases in this connection,The service also levied fines totaling 11.2 million rubles.
The produce had been bailed and an investigation has begun, the pressservice of the Kamchatka territory's Interior department said.
The consignment of fish was arrested when it was being carried by a truck from the fishing area on the peninsula's eastern coast to theadministrative center of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The truck drivers failed to present any documents confirming theorigins of the consignment to the police.
Fishing of Pacific salmon is in full swing in Kamchatka now, as the salmon comes to the local rivers and lakes for spawning during the secondhalf of summer.
Annually, authorized producers produce dozens of thousands of tons of salmon and tons of delicacy salmon roe, also known in Russia and someother countries as red caviar.
Official trading provides an important source of revenues to localbudgets of all levels.
However, poachers working alone or in whole cartels become especially active in this period of time, too, and the authorities also register production of fish and caviar above the authorized limits by authorizedcompanies.
The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision instituted 32 criminal cases last summer over offenses in the fishingindustry and issued fines totaling more than 8.5 million rubles.
The northeast branch of Russia's Coastal Guards detained 15 ships that engaged in illegal production of salmon and opened 2 criminal and 107 administrative cases in this connection,The service also levied fines totaling 11.2 million rubles.
