The coast guard has detained 18 fishermen in drives on the Meghna and Tentulia rivers in Bhola for fishing in breach of the ban that protects mother hilsa. Three hundred thousand metres of illegal net, 50 kg of mother hilsa and three wooden trawlers were seized.
The coast guard ran the drive on Monday morning (26 October), the 18th day of the ban.
A mobile court led by executive magistrate and assistant commissioner (land) S M Moshiur Rahman then fined each of the 18 fishermen Tk 3,000, Tk 54,000 in all. The seized trawlers are being sold at auction.
The 50 kg of seized hilsa was given to local orphanages and poor families, and the illegal nets were burnt.
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