In March fish protecting patrol caught 50 poachers in Volyn region. The patrol was looking for perpetrators with the assistance of public inspectors, police officers and eco-inspectors. Altogether there were 31 raids. The patrol detained 45 perpetrators and confiscated 15 fishing nets and 28 kilos of fish. The bill they had to pay was 2465 hryvnias.
In Ukraine there were 4978 fish protecting raids. The sum of loss of fishing industry is more than four million hryvnias.