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In airy of the caller apprehension of 14 fishermen from Tamil Nadu by the Sri Lankan Navy, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Monday (November 10, 2025) wrote to Union Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar, requesting to utilise each disposable diplomatic channels to unafraid the aboriginal merchandise and harmless repatriation of each the detained fishermen and their sportfishing boats. The radical of fishermen, hailing from Mayiladuthurai district, was arrested connected November 9.
Mr. Stalin contended: “It is simply a substance of heavy interest that incidents of Indian fishermen and their sportfishing vessels being detained by the Sri Lankan authorities proceed to occur. Several fishermen apprehended successful 2024 are inactive nether detention, and successful total, 128 fishermen from Tamil Nadu and 248 sportfishing boats stay nether Sri Lankan custody.”
The “high frequency” of arrests of Tamil Nadu fishermen and the seizure of their boats person caused terrible hardship to their families and person profoundly affected the coastal communities that beryllium connected sportfishing arsenic their superior livelihood, Mr. Stalin said and further urged the Union authorities to instrumentality concerted measures to revitalise the Joint Working Group mechanics and enactment towards a mutually acceptable and lasting solution to this long-standing issue.
