ROSTOV-ON-DON, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - Police in
southern Russian have detained a group of suspected poachers in
the northern part of the Caspian sea and seized over a metric
ton of sturgeon, local police said on Monday.
"During the search, more than a metric ton of fish, or a
total of 181 sturgeon, was seized, as well as fishing
equipment," the regional police department said on its website.
They also had 11 Caspian seal carcasses in their boats.
The 13 suspected poachers on four boats, all of them
residents of the south Russian Republic of Daghestan, attempted
to flee the police. They stopped only after police fired shots
into the engines of their boats.
"They did not respond to orders to stop and attempted to
hide the evidence by throwing the poached fish overboard,"
police said.
A criminal case has been launched.
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