The Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company, a Nornickel subsidiary, released another batch of young fish of particularly valuable species into the Yenisei River.
350,000 fingerlings were released in one day. The plan for 2024 is to release 3 million fingerlings, the same as in 2023. From 2033 to 2050, the energy subsidiary plans to release 510 million young fish of valuable species, such as sturgeon, muksun, chir, whitefish, and nelma, into the Norilo-Pyasinskaya lake-river system.
Under the 2022 settlement agreement, NTEC, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), and the Yenisei Territorial Administration of the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency agreed on full compensation for the damage to aquatic biological resources in the wake of the fuel spill accident in 2020.
“NTEC continues an extensive stocking program in cooperation with the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency. All plans for last year’s releases have been implemented. This year, a significant effort has already begun. According to studies, sturgeon populations recover very slowly in practice. I am confident that our systematic work in the Yenisei basin and the Norilo-Pyasinskaya water system will lead to the growth and development of the population,” said Vladimir Voronkov, project manager at NTEC.
In the summer of 2024, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences will study the state of aquatic biological resources and their habitats, determining scientifically justified and effective directions for restoring the disturbed state of aquatic organisms and population dynamics. The main fisheries research in Taimyr will run until September of this year. VNIRO will conduct regular research until 2051.
Theodor Lisovoy, Editor in Chief, Rough&Polished
