Barisal Correspondent :
A team of Fisheries Department in a drive on Thursday recovered more than one million shrimp-pollen( Renu Pona) worth Tk 30 lakh from a truck.
Thirty-seven workers also detained during the drive, said district fishery officer Wahiduzzaman .
He said on basis of tip-off about smuggling shrimp pollen they detained a truck crossing C and B Road area in the city on Thursday morning.
Searching the vehicle with the help of law enforcers they found it was carring huge plastic barrels filling with shrimp polen.
Thirty-seven workers related with carrying that shrimp-pollen were also detained by the law enforcers.
All of them came from different areas of Bhola and Laxmipur, sources said.
Police produced the shrimp-pollen with detained workers to a mobile court led by Kalyan Chowdhury, administrative magistrate of Barisal district administration .
The court realised fines total Tk. 97 thousand from the detained 37 workers for carrying shrimp pollen.
Later, the recovered shrimp-pollen released on the Kirtankhola River at noon by order of the court, said fishery official.
Catching of shrimp pollen restricted by fishery act to boost open water fish wealth, said Barisal Divisional Fisheries Officer Bazlur Rahman.
A team of Fisheries Department in a drive on Thursday recovered more than one million shrimp-pollen( Renu Pona) worth Tk 30 lakh from a truck.
Thirty-seven workers also detained during the drive, said district fishery officer Wahiduzzaman .
He said on basis of tip-off about smuggling shrimp pollen they detained a truck crossing C and B Road area in the city on Thursday morning.
Searching the vehicle with the help of law enforcers they found it was carring huge plastic barrels filling with shrimp polen.
Thirty-seven workers related with carrying that shrimp-pollen were also detained by the law enforcers.
All of them came from different areas of Bhola and Laxmipur, sources said.
Police produced the shrimp-pollen with detained workers to a mobile court led by Kalyan Chowdhury, administrative magistrate of Barisal district administration .
The court realised fines total Tk. 97 thousand from the detained 37 workers for carrying shrimp pollen.
Later, the recovered shrimp-pollen released on the Kirtankhola River at noon by order of the court, said fishery official.
Catching of shrimp pollen restricted by fishery act to boost open water fish wealth, said Barisal Divisional Fisheries Officer Bazlur Rahman.
