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Research ships in FE conduct radiation monitoring of fish, environment
VLADIVOSTOK, March 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Ships of the Pacific Fishery
Research Centre (TINRO) have started radiation monitoring of the
environment and fish caught in the Far Eastern seas.
Currently, four research vessels are in the seas -- the Professor
Kizevetter and the Professor Levanidov take measurements in the Sea of
Okhotsk off the western coast of Kamchatka, the TINRO in the northwest of the Pacific Ocean, and the Professor Kaganovsky has passed through the Tsugaru Strait and goes past the island of Hokkaido to the Southern Kuriles, where it will work for ten days, a source at the TINRO press service told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
According to deputy director-general of the centre Yuri Blinov, TINRO experts aboard the ships will take samples of water and sediments, measure the radiation background level and take samples of sea creatures for content of radioactive elements. The collected samples after preliminary measurements will be sent for a further analysis to the TINRO-Centre laboratories.
"According to the reports from the ships, the radioactivity in all the areas is within the background levels, that is normal", assured the TINRO source.
Leading researcher at the centre's laboratory of resources of the Far Eastern seas Vladimir Tuponogov believes, the main areas of traditional Russian Far East fishing -- the Sea of Okhotsk, the Russian waters of the Bering and Japan Seas -- are safe. There is no considerable Russian fishing in the area of possible contamination in the Pacific Ocean.
Research Centre (TINRO) have started radiation monitoring of the
environment and fish caught in the Far Eastern seas.
Currently, four research vessels are in the seas -- the Professor
Kizevetter and the Professor Levanidov take measurements in the Sea of
Okhotsk off the western coast of Kamchatka, the TINRO in the northwest of the Pacific Ocean, and the Professor Kaganovsky has passed through the Tsugaru Strait and goes past the island of Hokkaido to the Southern Kuriles, where it will work for ten days, a source at the TINRO press service told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
According to deputy director-general of the centre Yuri Blinov, TINRO experts aboard the ships will take samples of water and sediments, measure the radiation background level and take samples of sea creatures for content of radioactive elements. The collected samples after preliminary measurements will be sent for a further analysis to the TINRO-Centre laboratories.
"According to the reports from the ships, the radioactivity in all the areas is within the background levels, that is normal", assured the TINRO source.
Leading researcher at the centre's laboratory of resources of the Far Eastern seas Vladimir Tuponogov believes, the main areas of traditional Russian Far East fishing -- the Sea of Okhotsk, the Russian waters of the Bering and Japan Seas -- are safe. There is no considerable Russian fishing in the area of possible contamination in the Pacific Ocean.
