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After a hiatus of implicit 61 days, the marketplace astatine the Kasimedu Fishing harbour sprang backmost to beingness aboriginal Sunday greeting and sold astir 600 tonnes of fish.
The auctioning of wholesale food began by 2 a.m. and the retail income started astatine 5 a.m., attracting a batch of anxious buyers.
The yearly sportfishing prohibition had travel to a adjacent connected the midnight of June 15, and boats that acceptable retired connected four- to five-day trips returned connected Saturday nighttime and Sunday morning.
“A conception of the boats had been returning regular since Tuesday, aft sportfishing for a fewer hours. They brought backmost astir 250 to 400 tonnes of food each day. Of the full 800 mechanised boats that dock astatine the harbour, 50 are nether repair, 600 person been going for fishing, and 120 returned with food connected the archetypal Sunday,” a root successful the Fisheries Department said.
The boats brought backmost food specified arsenic mullets, vaala meen, octopus, anchovies, small-sized paarai, and shrimp.
“Prices were rather nominal. They were neither precise precocious nor precise low, making some fishermen and buyers happy,” a trader said.
Fish from Kasimedu is taken successful baskets by women to merchantability astatine section markets successful the city.
Fishermen proudly showed disconnected large-sized grouper fish, besides called Kalavaan, and sharks caught successful their nets.
“Earlier, specified sharks, Thirukkai, and Koala would not beconsumed similar fish. They would alternatively beryllium chopped into pieces and salted (made into uppu kandam) and sent to Sri Lanka. Now radical person started consuming these varieties too,” sportfishing assemblage person M.D. Dayalan said.
