According to the Hydrometeorological Center, slow snowmelt, formation of surface meltwater and rainwater runoff will occur over most of the region's territory, and rises in water levels on rivers and ice melting are expected. \n \nIn this regard, there is a threat of loss of life on water bodies in places of mass under-ice fishing. \n \nAccording to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, on the territory of Ukraine during the winter period of 2003-2004, 85 people died on water bodies in places of mass fishing. \n \nWith the aim of taking urgent measures to prevent and timely respond to emergency situations related to loss of life on water bodies in the winter period, I propose: \n \nTo analyze emergency situations on water bodies, identify the most dangerous water bodies and places of mass fishing, consider the issue of appointing persons responsible for compliance with safety rules and rescue of people at these sites, conduct measures to prevent loss of life on ice and pay special attention to: \n - equipping places of mass under-ice fishing with means for providing assistance in the event of an accident, creating seasonal rescue posts; \n - organizing, by the forces of the city (district) emergency and rescue services, units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, joint patrolling in places of mass fishing and ice crossings; \n - bringing the forces and means of the city (district) emergency and rescue services to a state of readiness;\n - equipping information boards to indicate places prohibited for fishing and going onto the ice;\n - organizing explanatory work among the population, producing preventive visual agitation in the form of leaflets and posters on preventing loss of life on water bodies in the winter period and distributing them in places of mass gathering of the population. \n \nHead of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Directorate in the Volyn Region \nM. Shtyrkhun