“Two groupers were caught at once, they live on the territory of the aquarium, they started eating, they behave well, everything is fine with them. But we decided that if they can create an environmental problem in Crimea, then why do we need them, let’s leave them for study by young people, let children look at them better... We don’t need them at sea, because they will eat up the entire food supply for smaller species of fish,” explained RT’s interlocutor.
He said that a reward of 5 thousand rubles would be paid for his capture.
“For the fisherman to take this fish so that it can continue to live in an aquarium, and not be fried in a frying pan at the evening table, we still offer 5 thousand rubles, so that they can go buy a beef leg 2 times more or 5 times more , but so that it would, as it were, compensate the fisherman for the costs of catching such fish,” Zhilenko explained.
But so far no one has contacted the aquarium, he concluded.
Earlier it was reported that the Moskvarium Center for Oceanography and Marine Biology will donate about 300 fish to the Sevastopol Maritime Museum-Aquarium, which suffered from the storm.