Ban on catching hilsa ends today
The government's imposition of countrywide ban on catching, transporting, marketing and selling of hilsa fish ends today.
The Department of Fisheries (DoF) seized 41.50 metric tonnes hilsha fish and 87.88 lakh metres of fishing nets from different parts of the country in the last ten days.
With help of law enforcement agencies, the DoF led about 851 mobile courts and conducted around 3,700 drives in coastal rivers and fish markets, said a press release.
During the drives, which started from September 25, the mobile courts jailed 694 people on different terms, fined Tk 11.20 lakh and filed 469 cases for catching and selling the fish.
Meanwhile, a DoF mobile court yesterday seized 45kg hilsa fish and sentenced a person to one month's imprisonment and fined another Tk 1,000.
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