Zaur Gapizov, head of the Caspian Environmental Safety Heart, mentioned in an announcement that the seals seemingly died a few weeks in the past. He added that there was no signal that they had been killed or caught in fishing nets.
Specialists of the Federal Fisheries Company and prosecutors inspected the shoreline and picked up information for laboratory analysis, which didn’t instantly spot any pollution.
A number of earlier incidents of mass seal deaths had been attributed to pure causes. Kazakhstan, which has a protracted Caspian shoreline, reported a minimum of three such incidents this yr.
Information in regards to the variety of seals within the Caspian fluctuate broadly. The fisheries company has mentioned the general variety of Caspian seals is 270,000-300,000, whereas the Caspian Environmental Safety Heart put the quantity at 70,000.