Some days ago, the criminal “government” of occupied Sevastopol announced another “attraction of unprecedented generosity” in the form of “compensations to enterprises engaged in fishing”.
We have previously written many times that the corresponding funds from the “federal budget” are allocated exclusively for propaganda purposes and in extremely modest amounts.
To imitate the “fairness of compensation”, the occupiers are now promising to “reimburse up to 20% of the cost of the average annual volume of products that the company will catch in three years”, but only “if the company retains at least 80% of its personnel”, with an “average calculation” of the cost of caught fish at “38 thousand rubles per ton”.
It’s not just the paltry price of the catch, the point of the scam is that the “average annual figure” will be calculated starting in 2022, when it has already become several times smaller.
Against this background, fishermen are sarcasm not only at the statements that “receiving a subsidy is unattainable for foreign legal entities”, as well as for persons “associated with international terrorism or the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction”, but also at the recent tragicomedy with the fishing vessel “Sarmat”.
Its owner and former “head” of the so-called “Association of Fishermen of the North-West Crimea and the City of Sevastopol”, collaborator Andrei Bezukh, was recently “fined” by the occupiers 405 thousand rubles, “for secrecy when crossing the state sea border”.
The gist of the “protocol” was that the vessel, which was fishing between Sevastopol and Yevpatoria, allegedly went beyond the 12-mile zone from the shore for several hours, “without permission” and “without making contact.”
As they gossip in Sevastopol, Bezukh, who nevertheless managed to “halve” the aforementioned “fine” in “court,” received it from the “authorities” as a “final warning”, after he publicly persistently inquired about the fate of the “subsidy to fishing entrepreneurs,” allegedly “allocated” last year and publicly complained about the microscopic nature of the “compensation payments” he personally received.
Before the large-scale aggression, Bezukh had 3 fishing brigades and 4 small vessels that caught flounder precisely beyond the 12-mile zone; in the coastal zone, he caught Black Sea shrimp, horse mackerel, perch and red mullet in large quantities, including fishing with stationary set nets, from Steregushche to Sevastopol. Now this business is sliding from a “black streak” to a joyless end for the ship owner, even without the above-mentioned “proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”
