Scientists explain mass deaths of endangered seals in Dagestan by natural causes
Specialists of the territorial department of the Russian Federal Agency for Fishery in Dagestan found the bodies of 272 Caspian seals washed up ashore of the Caspian Sea on December 6-10
MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Scientists confirmed that mass deaths of endangered seals in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan were due to natural causes, the press service of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) told TASS.
A study carried out by scientists did not confirm a theory that the seals could have died from intoxication or from poaching.