Due to the detection of mass deaths of seals on the Dagestan coast of the Caspian Sea, monitoring continues in the Azerbaijan section of the Caspian Sea.

APA reports that Firuddin Aliyev, head of the Biological Diversity Protection Service, said that on December 9, 2022, experts of the Biological Diversity Protection Service of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the Agrarian Services Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Food Safety Agency of the Caspian Sea during the monitoring conducted A total of 4 seals were found on the shores of Novkhani, Goradil, and Shuvelan.

According to the head of the service, in order to determine the cause of death of seal bodies, samples were taken by specialists, and the results of the analyzes will be reported to the public.