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Observing a token onslaught connected Saturday, fishermen associations successful Rameswaram urged the Union and Tamil Nadu governments to instantly rescue 2 fishermen who went missing portion engaged successful sportfishing activities.
An urgent gathering convened present passed 3 resolutions.
Speaking to media persons, the fishermen leaders said that connected December 6, a fisherman, Arockia Kings, went missing portion engaged successful sportfishing successful Palk Straits. The household members urged the authorities to hunt and manus implicit the fisherman without immoderate further delay.
Similarly, connected December 19, Ganesan, a fisherman, who was repairing an anchored mechanised vessel astatine the Rameswaram jetty, reportedly went missing. Expressing daze and concern, the household members appealed to the Marine Police to assistance rescue their breadwinner.
The fishermen associations, done a resolution, pleaded to the authorities acrophobic to instantly deploy nonrecreational divers and rescue the fishermen.
As a token of expressing their unity, the fishermen announced that they would not task into the oversea for sportfishing connected Saturday (Dec 20). The officials astatine the Fisheries Department besides said that they had not issued tokens owed to the one-day strike.
The fishermen leaders said that the Tamil Nadu authorities should springiness the compensation to the 2 families arsenic they person nary hint astir the hint of their breadwinner till Saturday. The household members were profoundly successful distress and required intelligence enactment and counselling. The territory medication should supply the assistance immediately, the solution stated.
