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Rameswaram fishermen detained 10 Karaikal fishermen, on with their boat, successful protestation against the Karaikal-based fishermen sportfishing successful the Rameswaram oversea area.
As the Palk Bay is simply a constrictive maritime zone, fishermen from Thanjavur, Pudukkottai, and Ramanathapuram districts acceptable sail into the oversea connected alternate days — 3 days a week for mechanised trawlers and 3 days for state boats — successful this region.
However, fishermen from Nagapattinam territory and Karaikal portion obtained deep-sea stay-fishing tokens, which allowed them to stay astatine oversea and food successful the Palk Bay passim the week, alleged the Rameswaram fishermen.
Since the Nagapattinam and Karaikal fishermen fished passim the week, the fishermen from Thanjavur, Pudukkottai, and Ramanathapuram districts were facing important losses, and their livelihood was severely affected, complained the fishermen.
Even though they submitted written complaints seeking an extremity to the occupation to authorities officials and the Minister for Fisheries, nary enactment had been taken, they claimed.
In this situation, the Karaikal fishermen were engaged successful stay-fishing successful the Palk Strait, astir 15 nautical miles northbound of Rameswaram, connected Monday evening.
Opposing this, groups of the Rameswaram fishermen went into oversea successful their boats astatine night, intercepted a mechanised vessel from Karaikal, and detained 10 fishermen connected board. They brought them to Rameswaram sportfishing harbour aboriginal connected Tuesday morning.
The 10 detained fishermen were aboriginal sent backmost to Karaikal by a vehicle, portion the seized mechanised vessel remained stationed astatine Rameswaram sportfishing harbour.
Fisheries Department officials successful Ramanathapuram territory are holding talks with Karaikal Fisheries officials regarding the incident.
However, the Rameswaram fishermen said the vessel would beryllium returned lone aft a determination ensuring that the Karaikal fishermen did not participate Rameswaram waters for stay-fishing was taken.
