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Rosneft’s production and processing enterprises released more than 3.3 million fish fry of various species into their natural habitat in August–October.
Preservation of biological diversity in the regions of presence, including replenishment of water resources with valuable fish species, is one of the main priorities of Rosneft’s environmental activities. At the request of oil workers, young fish are grown in nurseries, where optimal conditions for development are created: appropriate temperature conditions, high-quality nutrition and optimal water composition, which increases the chances of survival of the fry in the natural environment.
In the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, RN-Yuganskneftegaz employees released more than 1.5 million young Siberian sturgeon into water bodies. Tyumenneftegaz specialists released more than 200,000 young muksun, a valuable species of the whitefish family, into the Baibalakovskaya channel, from where the grown fish migrate to the Ob River. Kondaneft also replenished the rivers of the Ob-Irtysh basin with 440,000 sturgeon young, and Sibneftegaz with 140,000 young broad whitefish.
Employees of the Slavneft-Krasnoyarskneftegaz and RN-Vankor enterprises released more than 650 thousand young sterlet of the Yenisei population into the Yenisei River in the Sukhobuzimsky District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The release site was determined by ichthyologists taking into account the hydrological conditions of the water body, temperature, chemical composition of the water, as well as the natural food base necessary for this type of fish. Together with young specialists of RN-Vankor, schoolchildren from the Movement of the First took part in the release.
Employees of the East Siberian Oil and Gas Company released more than 17,000 grayling fry into the Yenisei River in the Republic of Khakassia. The Yenisei waters were also replenished by RN-Shelf-Arktika – the company’s ecologists released almost 110,000 fry of the endangered Siberian sturgeon into the river. Thanks to the systematic work on artificial stocking, which is carried out by the Company’s subsidiaries, the population of valuable fish species in Siberian reservoirs has grown significantly in recent years.
During the summer-autumn period, Bashneft released more than 100,000 sterlet, muksun, and salmon fry into the reservoirs of the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, which helps restore the ecosystems of the rivers and lakes of these regions. In September, a batch of 100,000 sterlet fry bred in specialized fish farms of the Holy Mother of God Kazan Monastery was released into the Belaya River in Bashkortostan, as well as into the Nizhnekamsk Reservoir in the Republic of Tatarstan. The sterlet was carefully transported to the release site in vehicles equipped with special devices for supplying and regulating oxygen levels and monitoring water temperature. Activists from the children’s and youth organization “Movement of the First” took part in the release of the fry.
Workers of the Novokuibyshevsk Oil Refinery, together with their children and activists of the “Movement of the First”, released 13 thousand sterlet fry into the Volga near the village of Vinnovka in the Samara Region. The enterprise has been systematically engaged in the reproduction of the Volga’s bioresources for 10 years.
Employees of the Syzran Oil Refinery, together with members of the Movement of the First, released more than 40,000 sterlet fry into the Saratov Reservoir. The sterlet is a native Volga fish that, due to a number of unfavorable factors, is on the verge of extinction. Thanks to a special program, in which Rosneft enterprises are also participating, the sterlet population in the Volga is gradually growing.
The Company’s subsidiaries located in the Irkutsk Region took part in the fish stocking campaign. Verkhnechonskneftegaz released 19,000 carp fry (each fry weighs 0.5 g) into the Belaya River. Under favorable conditions, the carp fry reaches a weight of 1-1.5 kg in a year. Employees of the Angarsk Petrochemical Company released 1,500 fry of the Baikal population of Siberian sturgeon, listed in the Red Book of Russia, into Lake Baikal. This is the second year in a row that ANHK has released this valuable representative of cartilaginous fish. In natural spawning conditions, the survival rate of Baikal sturgeon is low, so breeding fish in an artificial environment and subsequent stocking is an effective way to maintain the population of fish species valuable to the region.
Department of Information and Advertising of PJSC NK Rosneft October 11, 2024
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