Aggressor’s propaganda on April 1 circulated a statement by the infamous Georgy Muradov about “increasing ocean fishing”.
In general, this speech predictably “developed the leader’s words”, namely, Putin’s statements about “strengthening friendship with Africa”. Muradov said that “the countries of West Africa are interested in the resumption of fishing by Russia in the Atlantic, and also declared their readiness to issue quotas on mutually beneficial terms”.
In particular, Muradov announced the relevant plans for the waters of Benin, Ghana, Guinea and Mauritania, that the aggressor allegedly intends to “recreate Russian fishing bases in the Atlantic”, as well as criminally “renew existing enterprises for the acceptance and processing of fish in Kerch and Sevastopol”.
Of course, the ability of elderly Russian spies to influence the governments of African countries should not be exaggerated, but at the same time it is difficult to expect the aggressor to reduce his “fish mafia”, which has been repeatedly studied by our Association, including those associated with Atlantic fishing and the illegal “fish industry” in Russia- occupied Crimea.
This situation requires a comprehensive response from both the authorities of Ukraine and the partner states to the provocations of the aggressor, who will clearly strive not only to obtain quotas, to which, by the way, the Russian Federation, as an oceanic country, has never had special rights, but also to further oppression of Ukrainian oceanic fishery.
In fact, the main “antidote’ against the criminal encroachments of the aggressor and his puppets on the food security of Ukraine should be precisely the effective work of the Ukrainian oceanic fisheries within the framework of the existing and not canceled real, Ukrainian, quotas.
