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The Maharashtra Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) connected Saturday (March 7, 2026) with 3 Finnish companies to modernise Sassoon Dock. The statement was signed by the Maharashtra Fisheries Development Corporation with the Finland-based Helvar, Mirasis, and River Recycle astatine an lawsuit held successful Mumbai.
Sassoon Dock presently has astir 1,560 registered mechanised sportfishing boats, and records an mean yearly food accumulation of 50,000 to 60,000 metric tonnes, making it an important economical centre for the sportfishing community, and a precedence for the Maharashtra Government, State Fisheries Minister Nitesh Rane said, speaking connected the occasion.
Construction of net-mending sheds, workshops, underground h2o tanks, h2o pipelines, pump houses, and protective walls, on with renovation of nationalist facilities, has been undertaken successful caller days. Work related to crystal plants, strengthening of the jetty wall, food workers’ restrooms, and a modern auction hallway are being undertaken, helium said.
The tie-up with the Finnish companies volition absorption connected improving discarded management, recycling of integrative discarded and discarded sportfishing nets, and strengthening the nett repair strategy done capableness building. The inaugural is besides aimed astatine making the dock businesslike and sustainable for fishing.
The task was successful enactment with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s program to make world-class fisheries infrastructure portion ensuring the payment of the sportfishing community, and sustainable coastal development, the Minister said.
