The district and upazila task forces have arrested 61 fishermen for catching hilsa during the 22-day ban period to protect mother hilsa in the Padma and Meghna river sanctuary areas in Chandpur.
The district fisheries officer鈥檚 office said on Wednesday that the fishermen were arrested in separate operations by the task force from October 4 to October 14 evening, said assistant fisheries officer of the district, Farhana Akhter Ruma.
During the ban period, 32 mobile courts and 213 operations were conducted in the 70-kilometre area of the sanctuary in the past 14 days. 15 landing centres, 137 fish ghats,
732 warehouses and 403 markets were inspected and 495kg of hilsa and 2 lakh 42 thousand metres of net were seized, she said.
The estimated value of the seized net is Tk 59 lakh 21 thousand.
Forty-two separate cases were filed against the 61 fishermen who were arrested and a fine of Tk 34,000 was also collected.
Chandpur Sadar upazila senior fisheries officer Mirza Omar Faruk said that the campaign to protect the national resource hilsa was continuing. 鈥榃e will remain firm till the end.鈥�
