Recently, the so-called “head of the fisheries department” from the occupiers’ “relevant ministry,” Vladimir Gaidaenko, along with his “colleagues” from the so-called “Institute of Biochemical Technologies, Ecology, and Pharmacy,” including the “head of department” Vladimir Podoprigora, decided to “delight” Crimeans with the future of “the development of Black Sea aquaculture.”
Against the backdrop of the collapse of the fisheries industry itself and the rather difficult situation with the peninsula’s aquaculture industry, which is critically dependent on imported raw materials, the aforementioned “researchers” declared “bright prospects” for the latter, claiming that in Crimea, “fish farms with an annual discharge of 15-20 thousand tons of organic waste” could easily be established directly into the sea. The “logic” of these activists is peculiar: supposedly, all organic waste discharged by fish farms will be absorbed by the Black Sea hydrogen sulfide layer, “without organic pollution of the adjacent waters.”
In reality, this is just as far-fetched and absurd a hoax as the occupier’s previous announcements about harvesting hundreds of thousands of tons of Azov jellyfish.
And the issue here isn’t that no one in occupied Crimea studies the processes in the layer located at depths greater than 200 meters, nor is it that some “large-scale investments” in Crimean fish farming are utopian in the current reality.
On the occupied peninsula, for a decade now, the occupiers have been unable to launch any treatment facilities designed to discharge wastewater into the sea at much shallower depths, around 40-50 meters.
The aggressor simply doesn’t have, and won’t have, the technology to deep-sea dump any waste into the Black Sea, something that people like Gaidaenko understand well. Therefore, current announcements are, at best, more “jellyfish tales,” and, at worst, indicate preparations to launch facilities capable of destroying the remnants of the Black Sea ecosystems.
