National Desk :
Mobile court in separate drives arrested 42 fishermen along with current net and Hilsha fish in the last 24- hour from the rivers of Padma and Meghna in the district.
The mobile court later sentenced 23 fishermen to different terms of jail and fined 19 fishermen Taka 95 thousand for defying the government’s ongoing 22-day ban on Hilsha fishing, said District Fisheries Officer Pranab Kumar Karmakar.
A total of 42 fishermen were arrested with 133 kgs of mother Hilsha and 2.12 lakh meters of banned current nets during the drives, he said.
The seized nets were destroyed and the seized Hilsha has been distributed to the orphanages, madrasas and poor people in the area.
The government has imposed a 22-day ban starting from October 4 on catching, selling, storing and transporting Hilsha, to ensure safe spawning of the Mother Hilsha, during its peak breeding period.
