Navy apprehends 12 individuals for partaking in unlawful fishing in northern waters
Separate operations carried out by the Navy within the sea areas of Mamunai and Chundikulam, Jaffna on sixteenth and seventeenth April 2023 led to the apprehension of 12 individuals engaged in unlawful night time diving and light-coarse fishing. In the course of the operations, the Navy additionally seized 03 dinghies and unauthorized fishing gear used for these unlawful acts.
The Navy conducts common operations within the coastal and sea areas of the island with a purpose to suppress unlawful fishing actions carried out by individuals with scant regard in the direction of accountable fishing practices. As an extension of those efforts, the Naval Detachment Mamunai belonging to the Veththalakerni Naval Deployment within the Northern Naval Command deployed naval craft and carried out a particular operation off Mamunai on sixteenth April. The operation led to the apprehension of 04 individuals engaged in unlawful diving actions to catch fish and seizure of 01 dinghy and unauthorized fishing gear.
In the meantime, a gaggle of Navy Marines hooked up to Naval Detachment Chundikulam of the Naval Deployment Veththalakerni additionally carried out a particular operation off Chundikulam on seventeenth April. In the course of the operation, naval personnel nabbed 08 individuals together with 02 dinghies and fishing gear for practising light-coarse fishing within the sea space .
The individuals apprehended in these operations are residents of Mannar, Thalayadi, Puulayarkoilady, Pudukuduirippu and Anandapuram, who’re from 28 to 59 years of age. The suspects together with their fishing tools and dinghies have been handed over to the Division of Fisheries and Aquatic Assets in Jaffna for onward authorized motion.
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