Survey launched to resolve fishing rights dispute between East Godavari, Konaseema

A caller resurvey has been commissioned to place the administrative borders of the East Godavari and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema districts, pursuing a quality betwixt the fisherfolk of the 2 districts implicit sportfishing rights successful the Godavari river.

The quality remains unsolved arsenic the fisherfolk of Bobbarlanka and Dowleswaram proceed to combat implicit the sportfishing rights successful the Godavari stream astatine Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage successful Dowleswaram. 

This year, the Dowleswaram Matsakara Sangham won the yearly lease signed by the Department of Fisheries, with an entitlement to cod chaotic prawn effect from the stream astatine Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage. The lease is present successful question with the Bobbarlanka Matsakara Sangham raising objections implicit the lease and restrictions connected them from the postulation of the chaotic prawn seed.

In a gathering held present connected Tuesday (23 December, 2025), Joint Collectors T. Nishanthi (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseem District) and Y. Megha Swaroop (East Godavari) person directed the Departments of Fisheries, Irrigation and Survey to behaviour a caller survey to place the borders of the 2 districts to find a imperishable solution to the sportfishing rights. The officials met to sermon the quality based connected the directives of the court.

“The Departments of Fisheries, Irrigation and Survey volition taxable their study connected the boundaries of the 2 districts astatine Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage connected December 30. The adjacent circular of talks volition beryllium held connected the quality with 2 parties connected January 22, 2026. The postulation of chaotic prawn effect volition beryllium banned astatine Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage until further decision,” said the Joint Collectors successful an authoritative release.