Killer whales can be included in the Red Book in 2019

This is reported by RIA Novosti.

“This year we have to finalize and complete the Red Book. I have set such a goal and we are going to it, ”he said, answering the corresponding question.

At the same time, the agency specifies that in 2018 carnivorous killer whales were introduced into the new edition of the Red Book of Kamchatka Krai.

Previously, experts described the state of killer whales and beluga whales kept in the "whale prison" in the Primorye Territory.

In turn, the deputy director of the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography for Science Vyacheslav Bizikov, in an interview with NSN, commented on the situation.