Fishermen used a boat, poaching tools and managed to catch more than 1,150 Danube herring.

Violators were detected during the realization of anticipatory information by military personnel of the Izmail Marine Guard Detachment together with employees of the Water Police and the State Environmental Inspection on the territory of the Danube Biosphere Reserve on the Danube River.

A report was sent to the National Police on the grounds of an offense.

The fishing boat, fish, 24 poaching fishing nets, 1,800 m long, were seized by the employees of the Water Police unit of the Izmail State Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine in the Odesa region.

According to preliminary estimates, the poachers caused damage to the state in the amount of about 3 million hryvnias.