Mandapam fishermen venture into sea as ban period comes to end

After the yearly 2 months prohibition play came to an end, fishermen from Rameswaram and Mandapam ventured into the oversea connected Sunday evening.

The 61-day prohibition play was acceptable to let reproduction of food successful the oversea by the Union government, during which period, the fishermen utilised it to repair and renovate their trawlers and among others.

As the vacation came to close, the fishermen, numbering implicit 4000 acceptable disconnected connected the Palk Straits successful astir 800 trawlers. They are scheduled to instrumentality to the shores connected Monday (June 15), fisheries section officials said and added that they had strictly announced the fishermen not to indulge successful poaching.

Only those fishermen, who produced their ID cards and Aadhar cards, were issued tokens and the officials were engaged successful counselling with the fishermen for a little period.

Hoping to instrumentality with bully yield, the fishermen besides said that astatine slightest this season, the Union authorities and the recently elected TVK enactment successful Tamil Nadu should assistance successful getting backmost the jailed fishermen successful Sri Lankan prisons nether charges of poaching.

Also, they appealed for a imperishable solution to the contented since it acrophobic their livelihood. Under specified circumstances, the fisheries section officials besides sensitised the fishermen to beryllium guarded portion fishing. According to the officials, till Saturday, the upwind was not precise conducive, but it turned retired to beryllium mean connected Sunday, they added.