LAKE SEVAN LEVEL 41 CM UP IN 2004
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 24. ARMINFO. The level of Lake Sevan has risen
by 41 cm to 1.897 meters in 2004. 1 cm rise implies 12.5 mln c m of
water,0 says Environment Protection Minister Vardan Ayvazyan.
He says that in the last three years Sevan’s level has risen by 1.35
meters. 149.835 mln c m have been released from the lake this year
against with 243.19 mln c m poured into it from the Arpa-Sevan canal.
This year ecological inspectors have seized 8,000 illegally fished
sigs against 100,000 ones in 2002. Fishing on the lake has been banned
since Nov 25 to allow fish to reproduce itself.