A mobile court in the port city recovered 24 tons of Jatka(fries of Hilsa) from a fish trawler at Sadarghat point of Karnaphuli river in city on Monday afternoon.
In connection of the indiscriminate fishing of Jatka, 15 fisher men on board were rounded up the law enforcers.
District administration and RAB forces jointly conducted the raid , sources said.
Executive Magistrate of the district administration Abdullah al Mansur led the mobile court.
He told the media men that a fishing trawler FV Crescent anchored at Sadarghat area in the river with Jatka fish and sensing the news of jatka unloading , mobile court conducted raid in that trawler and recovered these huge jatka from the cold storage of the trawler, sources said.
The captain of the trawler could not be detained but 15 persons including fishermen, workers in the trawler were arrested.
These detained fishes will be preserved in cold storage of the vessel for the time being and after decision of the district administration , the disposal of the fishes will be taken, Executive Magistrate said.
