Navy arrests 15 fishermen engaged in illegal fishing
Posted by Editor on October 2, 2014 - 6:05 pm
In two raids, the Naval troops have arrested 15 fishermen and seized four trawlers engaged in illegal fishing using prohibited fishing gears, this morning.
In one raid, a naval troop attached to the Northern Naval Command arrested one person with 950 kilograms of illegal fish catch using explosives in Mandathivu Island, Jaffna, while 14 others were nabbed off Arisimalai in Tincomalee sea.
The arrested persons with the items were handed over to the Pulmudai police and the Assistant Director of the Fisheries Department in Jaffna for further investigations.
(Ada Derana)
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Using explosives by Tamil Nadu illegal fishermen should incur severe penalty. They should be heavily fined, lose their catch and trawlers and be imprisoned. Hon President should not have them released. Let a strong message be sent to Modi that SL means business. If they want a war let’s give them a war, with China and Pakistan as our allies, to counter India.
Jesus…! You need war more.? Is that a holly war or war on terror? Or war on fish? 🙂 war is for who make arms, the peace is for us to live. You’ve a western war-mind as you lost the faith of great peace giving buddhism. That’s miserable. Sinhala buddhists never want a war!