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Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare Department told the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court that directions and consciousness were being fixed to fishermen regarding the usage of eco-friendly materials.
Announcements were made successful sportfishing villages instructing them not to usage banned sportfishing materials not conscionable for squid farming but for immoderate benignant of sportfishing method and that enactment would beryllium initiated against the violators, it was submitted.
Taking enactment of the submission, a Division Bench of Justices Anita Sumanth and C. Kumarappan disposed of the nationalist involvement litigation petition that sought a absorption to authorities to forestall water contamination by restraining fishermen from utilizing integrative materials nether the guise of squid farming.
The petitioner, S. Lenin, president of Kanniyakumari District Meen Thozhilalar Sangam, complained astir the assorted methods being adopted by fishermen successful the sanction of squid farming.
He said the squid play was from August to October. The fishermen were adopting artificial breeding methods, and to acceptable up a hatchery integrative bottles, sand-filled integrative bags and different materials were used. This caused a menace to marine life. Plastic debris affected the ecosystem.
Even though instructions were fixed to fishermen to not usage integrative materials, they were lone focusing connected sportfishing and forgetting their responsibilities, the petitioner said.
