Nearly 300 dead seals found on the shores of the Caspian Sea
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Almost 300 bodies were dumped on the coast in four days. Experts suggest that this was due to a viral or bacterial disease.
In the Caspian Sea, 272 Red Book seals were found dead in four days. About it reports Interfax on Friday 11 December.
Most of the bodies were found on the northern part of the coast from Makhachkala to Sulak.
Now scientists are establishing the cause of the mass death of seals. It is assumed that this was due to an infectious disease of viral or bacterial origin.
“An expert group of scientists from the Western Caspian Department of the Volga-Caspian Branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (CaspNIRKh) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) arrived in Dagestan,” the source says.
In turn, the Federal Agency for Fishery suggests that the animals could have died from an infection that arose against the background of protracted storms.
“Animals in the period between storms are forced to be more and more crowded. Accordingly, their chance of being affected by infectious diseases multiplies. Morbillivirus infections quite often affect them, carnivore plague, smallpox. Unfortunately, this situation worsens every year,” explained the head of the Research Center and conservation of marine mammals Vyacheslav Alekseev.
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