In part of the Khimki reservoir, all the fish died. Thousands of carcasses were washed ashore. The locals are very excited and understandable. So far, not a single authority has undertaken to eliminate the consequences of the state of emergency, and it remains to be guessed about its causes. The environmental prosecutor's office is still waiting for the results of the examination.
They surfaced as soon as the ice began to break. From each polynya, hundreds of carcasses were washed ashore every day, reports. When the ice finally melted and the sun came out, a fetid smell appeared. Particularly active citizens tried to apply to various authorities, wrote letters. But there was only one answer: the fish suffocated, it simply did not have enough oxygen under a layer of thick ice.
“When the polynya begins to appear, the water melts, then all this fish floats up. It looks very much like a kill,” says a professor at the Department of Bioecology and Ichthyology, Moscow State University of Technology and Management. K.G. Razumovsky Yuri Simakov.
"Nothing of the kind! We have been living here since the 70th year. And there were very different weather, different situations. This has never happened before! Fishermen have been complaining since January that there are no fish. What does the ice have to do with it?" - local resident Frida Slavinskaya is indignant.
The fact that something terrible happened, the fishermen really suspected immediately after the New Year. The nibble disappeared, no bait helped.
"The reservoir here is 9 kilometers long, 25 meters deep. There simply cannot be a natural kill here, because it is connected to the Moskva River, which is open all year round," fisherman Albert Kolesnichenko is indignant.
"If a fish has a freeze, then it appearance is changing. Her gill covers are protruding, her mouth is open. And the mucous membrane around the mouth is dark blue," Professor Simakov insists.
At first glance, all the external signs of a freeze are evident. The gills are protruding, the mouth is open. True, it is impossible to make out the color of the mucosa. Yes, and the examination is too late, experts say. Too much time has passed. But, according to the fishermen, they conducted their investigative experiment in the winter. The result turned out to be so monstrous that it would be better not to meddle in this quiet pool.
"A pipe burst in the next bay. None of our friends came up, but people said that sewage was flowing. No one attached any importance, but it flowed decently - for a week. bottom, they found that dead fish lay in layers there," says fisherman Oleg Shebarin.
Neither in the nearest bay, nor upstream mass graves of fish are now observed. Among the alleged perpetrators of the tragedy, local residents name a cognac factory, an elite residential complex on the opposite bank, and a yacht club, saying how much fuel is drained. But the manager is sure: the club is not to blame for anything, there were no emissions and drains, the season opens only in May. But whether it will open because of the current situation is a big question.
“It will be impossible to enter the water. Up to outbreaks of epidemics. These are corpses, all this is rotting. Again, the fish are not small, the bones are big, children swim on the beach all the time,” the manager of the yacht club Peter Izosimov worries.
The fish is really large, bottom. The one that was asleep, but never woke up. So the representatives of the Fisheries Protection, who insisted on a freeze, now have to repel the attacks of angry fishermen.
The results of the water intake are not ready yet. It would be good to take also soil samples, environmentalists say. It turns out that the Khimki reservoir was last cleaned 20 years ago.
"The biggest cleaning was in the 98th year. All the sewers that are in that area are by no means designed for those loads that simply cannot cope and fail. That is, treatment facilities, collectors also cannot cope," says the younger researcher of the Institute water problems Russian Academy Sciences Artem Akshintsev.
Local residents are afraid of the moment when thousands of people who want to relax will come here. In the meantime, dogs and birds are afraid to approach the coastline. Feathers, by the way, completely disappeared. For several months - no crows, no seagulls. They fly around the territory like the Bermuda Triangle.
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Mass death of fish in the Khimki reservoir. Tons of dead perches and crucians surfaced near its shores. Experts attribute the death of fish to a lack of oxygen, but we can talk about an environmental disaster.
This picture is a fisherman's nightmare. With the onset of the thaw, the Khimki reservoir turned into a giant fish cemetery. Large pike perch, white carp and catfish lie lifelessly on the surface of the water, belly up.
“For the first time in 30 years! The fish stopped biting here in the winter, somewhere in January. All the fishermen were surprised, what's the matter? How many fish are still at the bottom? We determine by crows, seagulls, if they fly in and peck at the ice, then there is fish there,” says Vyacheslav Sterlikov, a fisherman.
Some dead fish in the ice, some washed ashore. Here, for example, a couple of catfish. And so it goes all along the coastline. Fishermen state that the case is really difficult.
“We always caught fish throughout the winter until it melted. Pike perch, catfish, which now lies in front of you. 25 meters depth of the reservoir. How could she choke? This has never happened in my life, even one catfish could not be found on the shore,” complains Yuri Ionov, a fisherman.
What caused the massive fish kill? The versions are different. The most likely fishermen consider chemical poisoning. 6 kilometers from this place is a cognac wine factory, which allegedly dumped waste into the water. Also, fishermen do not exclude that sewage from the residential complex, which is located on the shore, merges directly into the reservoir.
“They drained the sewer, it went under the ice. As soon as the ice melts, everything is revealed. In winter, a lot is drained here, the ice is thick, no one sees anything,” says Vyacheslav Sterlikov, a fisherman.
However, the inspectors of the Federal Agency for Fishery retort that the fish could not have died from poisoning at all, but from a lack of oxygen, and it was washed ashore already dead.
“Our winter was quite severe, almost 100 percent of the reservoirs were covered with ice. Plus, this fish lives at depth. Of course, we will take samples, conduct an investigation, but I'm almost sure that this is a kill, a natural kill. The reservoirs, frankly, have not been cleaned for a long time, so there is a lot of mud, all sorts of sticks, in winter it all starts to rot, release gas and simply squeeze out oxygen, ”explains Roman Balaev, senior state inspector federal agency on fishing.
Fish is considered a status indicator environment. Her death underlines the scale of the ecological disaster, local residents are sure. The state of the reservoir, according to them, in Lately deteriorated sharply.
“The smell is very strong. Now the wind, and yesterday there was no wind, it was very warm, and the smell was terrible. The damage to the environment is, of course, insane,” says Petr Izosimov.
Ecologists arrived at the scene and took water samples for analysis to determine if there was pollution and find the perpetrators of the pestilence. The results will be ready in a few days. Fans of fishing in the near future are unlikely to be able to uncover their fishing rods. Lots of dead fish. It will take a lot of time to catch it and clear this area, but for now the carcasses on the shore continue to go out.
P.S.. The fish inspection refers to the harsh winter, but, as
Massive pestilence of fish Khimki reservoir. Tons of dead perches and crucians surfaced near its shores. Experts attribute the death of fish to a lack of oxygen, but we can talk about ecological disaster.
This picture is a fisherman's nightmare. With the onset of the thaw, the Khimki reservoir turned into a giant fish cemetery. Large pike perch, white carp and catfish lie lifelessly on the surface of the water, belly up.
“For the first time in 30 years! The fish stopped biting here in the winter, somewhere in January. All the fishermen were surprised, what's the matter? How many fish are still at the bottom? We determine by crows, seagulls, if they fly in and peck at the ice, then there is fish there,” says Vyacheslav Sterlikov, a fisherman.
Some dead fish in the ice, some washed ashore. Here, for example, a couple of catfish. And so it goes all along the coastline. Fishermen state that the case is really difficult.
“We always caught fish throughout the winter until it melted. Pike perch, catfish, which now lies in front of you. 25 meters depth of the reservoir. How could she choke? This has never happened in my life, even one catfish could not be found on the shore,” complains Yuri Ionov, a fisherman.
What caused the massive fish kill? The versions are different. The most likely fishermen consider chemical poisoning. 6 kilometers from this place is a cognac wine factory, which allegedly dumped waste into the water. Also, fishermen do not exclude that sewage from the residential complex, which is located on the shore, merges directly into the reservoir.
“They drained the sewer, it went under the ice. As soon as the ice melts, everything is revealed. In winter, a lot is drained here, the ice is thick, no one sees anything,” says Vyacheslav Sterlikov, a fisherman.
However, the inspectors of the Federal Agency for Fishery retort that the fish could not have died from poisoning at all, but from a lack of oxygen, and it was washed ashore already dead.
“Our winter was quite severe, almost 100 percent of the reservoirs were covered with ice. Plus, this fish lives at depth. Of course, we will take samples, conduct an investigation, but I'm almost sure that this is a kill, a natural kill. The reservoirs, frankly, have not been cleaned for a long time, so there is a lot of mud, all sorts of sticks, in winter it all starts to rot, release gas and simply squeeze out oxygen, ”explains Roman Balaev, senior state inspector of the Federal Agency for Fisheries.
Fish is considered an indicator of the state of the environment. Her death underlines the scale of the ecological disaster, local residents are sure. The state of the reservoir, according to them, has recently deteriorated sharply.
“The smell is very strong. Now the wind, and yesterday there was no wind, it was very warm, and the smell was terrible. The damage to the environment is, of course, insane,” says Petr Izosimov.
Ecologists arrived at the scene and took water samples for analysis to determine if there was pollution and find the perpetrators of the pestilence. The results will be ready in a few days. Fans of fishing in the near future are unlikely to be able to uncover their fishing rods. Lots of dead fish. It will take a lot of time to catch it and clear this area, but for now the carcasses on the shore continue to go out.
Mass killing of fish in Moscow at the Khimki reservoir. Tons of dead catfish, perch, crucian carp, even sterlet surfaced near its shores. Experts attribute the death of fish to a lack of oxygen, but we can talk about an environmental disaster.
With the onset of the thaw, the Khimki reservoir turned into a giant fish cemetery. Large pike perch, white carp and catfish lie lifelessly on the surface of the water, belly up.
“This is the first time in 30 years! The fish stopped biting here in winter, somewhere in January. All the fishermen were surprised, what was the matter? And how many fish are still at the bottom? there are fish there," says Vyacheslav Sterlikov,
fisherman.
Some dead fish in the ice, some washed ashore. Here, for example, a couple of catfish. And so it goes all along the coastline. Fishermen state that the case is really difficult.
"We always caught fish throughout the winter until melting. Pike perch, catfish, which now lies in front of you. The depth of the reservoir is 25 meters. How could it die? This has never happened in my life, even one catfish could not be found on the shore", - complains Yuri Ionov, a fisherman.
What caused the massive fish kill? The versions are different. The most likely fishermen consider chemical poisoning. 6 kilometers from this place is a cognac wine factory, which allegedly dumped waste into the water. Also, fishermen do not exclude that sewage from the residential complex, which is located on the shore, merges directly into the reservoir.
"They drained the sewerage, it went under the ice. As soon as the ice melts, everything was discovered. In winter, a lot is drained here, the ice is thick, no one sees anything," says Vyacheslav Sterlikov, a fisherman.
However, the inspectors of the Federal Agency for Fishery retort that the fish could not have died from poisoning at all, but from a lack of oxygen, and it was washed ashore already dead.
“Our winter was quite severe, almost 100 percent of the reservoirs were covered with ice. Plus, this fish lives at depth. Of course, we will take samples, conduct an investigation, but I’m almost sure that this is a freeze, a natural freeze. Reservoirs, frankly, They haven’t been cleaned for a long time, so there is a lot of mud, all sorts of sticks, in winter it all starts to rot, release gas and simply squeeze out oxygen,” explains Roman Balaev, senior state inspector of the Federal Agency for Fisheries.
Fish is considered an indicator of the state of the environment. Her death underlines the scale of the ecological disaster, local residents are sure. The state of the reservoir, according to them, has recently deteriorated sharply.
"The smell is very strong. Now the wind, but yesterday there was no wind, it was very warm, and the smell was terrible. The environmental damage, of course, is insane," says Petr Izosimov.
Ecologists arrived at the scene and took water samples for analysis to determine if there was pollution and find the perpetrators of the pestilence. The results will be ready in a few days. Fans of fishing in the near future are unlikely to be able to uncover their fishing rods. Lots of dead fish. It will take a lot of time to catch it and clear this area, but for now the carcasses on the shore continue to go out.
PS: I myself live near the Khimki reservoir, with children in winter my favorite pastime is to catch an eye near the house, but there really hasn’t been fish since the beginning of the year. Gone. With the beginning of the melting of the ice, they found the reason for the lack of bite.
The fish inspection refers to the harsh winter - all this is not true, you just need to move off the topic. The water was poisoned.
During 3 winter months stood terrible smell in the area of the reservoir, even in cold weather. People wrote to all inspections, but until the ice began to melt, no one moved.
