THREAT TO CAVIAR
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter —Copyright) MOSCOW, September 2.
Soviet Union scientists have set out on an expedition to dam the sea of Azov and reduce its salt content to save the sturgeon population there, the news agency, Tass reports. The supply of fresh water from rivers flowing into the sea is falling because it is being used for industrial and agricultural purposes, and scientists from the Ukranian Academy of Sciences intend to dam the sea on the Kerch Strait, between the Crimea and the Caucasus, where it joins the Black Sea. This will reduce the influx of salt water, enabling the scientists to control salinity and to reduce the threat to sturgeon in the Azov Sea. The dam will have a lock to allow shipping to pass. Sturgeon provides most Russian caviar, of which there has been a grave shortage for some years.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32702, 3 September 1971, Page 25
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