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21 July 2022

Kuzbass Fuel Company released four thousand fish fry into the Tom River

The Vinogradovsky section of the Kuzbass Fuel Company held an annual event to restore biological resources in water bodies affected during the development of sections of the Karakansky coal deposit.

The company released about four thousand nelma fry into the Tom River of the Ob basin.

Compliance with the technology of rearing was monitored by specialists of the Verkhneobsky territorial Administration of Rosrybolovstvo and the Tomsk Scientific and Industrial fish breeding complex.

The fish fry were grown in a special outgrowth pond to the size necessary for survival. The release of the fry of the nelma was carried out on the basis of favorable conditions for the adaptation and growth of fish – having determined in advance the appropriate place and water temperature.

The river is stocked annually as part of the integrated environmental program of the Vinogradovsky section of the Kuzbass Fuel Company in order to restore aquatic bioresources.

In 2019 – 2022 , more than 15 thousand juvenile nelma with a total weight of over 45 kg were released .

"The reproduction of river reserves is only part of the company's environmental measures aimed at preserving biological diversity. Taking care of the environment, the company builds modern sewage treatment plants, conducts constant environmental monitoring of water, air and soil," says Nadezhda Sergeeva, ecologist of the Vinogradovsky section.

Every year, Kuzbass Fuel Company invests tens of millions of rubles in environmental protection measures. These include monitoring of atmospheric air, measurements at the border of the sanitary protection zone of the enterprise, monitoring of underground and surface waters, as well as soil and snow cover, complete cleaning of household, quarry and surface waters, participation in regional and federal environmental actions and others.