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A radical of fishermen successful Ramanathapuraim connected Friday ‘detained’ 14 fishermen from Karaikal successful Puducherry for breaching sportfishing zones and ‘impounded’ their boat. The fishermen from the Union Territory were handed implicit to the Marine Police.
Officials from the Tamil Nadu Fisheries Department said the food caught by the Karaikal fishermen were auctioned and the fishermen were sent backmost location by road. Their vessel was seized. The officials said enactment would beryllium taken against them arsenic per the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Marine Fishing Regulation Act, 1983, which imposed restrictions connected sportfishing zones. The fishermen had travelled astir 150 miles from their portion and reached Dhanushkodi. The section fishers confronted them and detained the fishermen.
Fishermen successful Ramanathapuram accused their Karaikal counterparts of utilizing agelong sized boats and venturing into the accepted Palk Bay country alternatively of resorting to heavy oversea fishing. Such violations continued contempt erstwhile talks betwixt fishermen of some regions.
As per the law, fishermen from different regions are prohibited from sportfishing successful the State’s coastal waters. Local fishermen claimed the Tamil Nadu authorities was alert of the usurpation but it had not taken tangible enactment against the Karaikal fishermen.
Fisheries Department officials said they would nonstop a study to the authorities for action. The vessel has been impounded successful Rameswaram jetty.
