A case of mass fish death has been recorded in the capital's Salar canal. After information about the incident appeared on social media, representatives of the Main Directorate of Ecology and Climate Change of Tashkent were dispatched to the site.
Inspectors began surveying the area to establish all circumstances of what happened. Employees of the Department of Environmental Monitoring, Climate Change Adaptation, and Hydrometeorology took water samples from the canal for subsequent laboratory study.
At the moment, the cause of the fish death remains unknown. Specialists are studying various potential factors that could have triggered this phenomenon. Representatives of the environmental agency clarified that final conclusions will only be ready after all necessary inspections and laboratory analyses are completed. The results of the investigation will be announced later.
Furthermore, illegal fishing was recently suppressed in Bukhara region on Lake Khadicha. During this operation, 118 fish were seized from three suspects, and the damage to nature was estimated at over 126 million soms.