Photo: "Eko Pančevački rit" citizens' associationWhile representatives of ecological associations warn that carelessness on the part of the authorities leads to such disasters, "Srbijašum" replies that due to poor conditions for the survival of fish, such a situation occurs regularly every year.
It happened in the Viselj canal near Kovilov mass fish kill. A pile of dead fish floats in the channel, which is full of toadstool, and some specimens weigh more than ten kilograms. Zoran Janković from the Citizens' Association "Eko Pančevački rit" explains to "Vreme" that what happened is the result of negligence on the part of the authorities, i.e. the company.Serbian forests".
The citizens who live there have gardens, grow vegetables and fruits and water them with this water, so they fear infection. In addition to cleaning the canal, they also want to protect the fish stock.
"The fish disease was reported to us by the citizens on the afternoon of July 18, in the settlement of Kovilovo, near the bridge. We went out into the field and saw a pile of dead fish. It was Friday afternoon, and the institutions were not working. On Saturday, we sent the report to the Fisheries Inspectorate, and they forwarded the report to the Water Inspectorate on Monday. "The inspectors went to the field and ordered the 'Srbijašums', which manage the fishery, to go to the field," says Janković.
The teams of "Srbijašum" immediately went to the reported location, near the bridge. They went around two more nearby, but did not find the dead fish.
Janković notes that the cause of this is the wind that was blowing in the opposite direction and therefore moved the carpet of grass 30 to 50 centimeters thick upstream 500 meters from the place where the plague was reported. He accuses the fish keepers from "Srbijašum" of having done the job in a hurry, and that's why they didn't find the dead fish.
"They did that because they have to collect dead fish and to avoid doing that, they reported no distress, although I'm sure they knew the fish was actually 500 meters away." We have documented material that there was a plague, and that cannot be hidden," underscores the interlocutor of "Vremena".
However, a temporary solution was found
The turning point happened when citizens reported the problem to RTS, i.e. the program "Beogradska hronika", whose reporter made a report on the fish plague. Then the authorities from "Srbijašum" went out to the field again, established the plague and said that they would remove the dead fish.
They pointed out that this kind of situation happens every year due to poor conditions for fish survival.
"The results showed that the temperature was elevated, close to 27 degrees, therefore the water level was low, the amount of oxygen decreased, the concentration of nitrates and ammonia increased, and this was the cause of death, that is, this channel has completely unfavorable habitat conditions for the survival of fish, that is, for their life and it regularly happens every year in the same period", explained Ivana Stanković from the Fishery area of Belgrade from JP "Srbijašume" to RTS.
Janković disagrees with this and emphasizes that the problem can be solved if fresh water is pumped into the canals, and stagnant water is thrown out. In this way, plagues would be prevented. That way the problem would be solved, but for something like this the authorities say - there is no money.
"If they can take money from fishermen for permits, I don't see any reason why they wouldn't find money for pumping in fresh water and pumping out stagnant water," says Janković.
"A great evil for fisheries in Serbia"
The interlocutor of "Vremena" from the Citizens' Association "Eko Pančevački rit" assesses the work of the Fisherman's Control of JP "Srbijašuma" very poorly and accuses them of being "a big evil for the fisheries in Serbia."
"I will give the best example." Two years ago, the Opovački Dunavac canal dried up, thanks to the Al Dahra company that watered its agricultural crops. We have nothing against watering, but the biological minimum must be respected. No one controlled this biological minimum in Opovački Dunavac. The Al Dahra company did not even have an irrigation permit, it was stealing that water. Despite everything. Nothing was done, so that channel was reduced to a depth of 30 centimeters, and its natural depth is three meters, 30 meters wide. And no one was responsible for that either," says Janković.
He accuses that the fish keepers "in conjunction with thieves fished that channel for two months".
"And all the rafts on the banks of the Sava and Danube had fish from there." That's where we got really angry with 'Srbijašum'. We sent them a letter, but they never responded. In it, we sought the criminal responsibility of the fishkeeper. "Instead of protecting it, they destroy our environment," concludes Janković.
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