Officials remove 1,400 meters of fishing nets from issyk-kul lake

Officials in Kyrgyzstan removed 1,400 meters of old fishing nets and 20 kilograms of garbage from Issyk-Kul, a high altitude lake.

The Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Technical Supervision conducted raids on November 3 to protect aquatic resources and stop poaching. These efforts resulted in the removal of 400 meters of nets from the lake. On that same day, the Issyk-Kul regional administration performed additional raids to extract another 1,000 meters of nets and collect waste.

Since the start of the year, the ministry has removed more than 160,000 meters of old nets and gathered about 4,000 kilograms of garbage as part of a broader initiative to clean water bodies and protect water resources.