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A 22-day ban on hilsha fishing, selling, transporting, hoarding and marketing has been effective from Monday in the country to protect mother hilsa for ensuring safe breeding, Lt Khandaker Munif, a Coast Guard media officer, confirmed the matter in the afternoon.
Munif came up with the statement while the Coast Guard was raising awareness among fishermen and fish traders by distributing leaflets, postering and miking in Swarighat area, Dhaka on the first day of the ban.
Meanwhile, a mobile court sentenced 14 fishermen to jail for netting hilsa from a river in Taltali upazila of Barguna district during the 22-day ban on catching, selling, carrying and storing of hilsa, said our Barishal correspondent.
Executive Magistrate Md Kawsar Hossain jailed them for 20 days for violating the rules of the prohibition.
The mobile court also cancelled the licenses of three trawlers, which used for netting fish. They also distributed hilsa fishes among the orphans in local Madrasa in the upazila.
Earlier, a joint-force of Coast Guard, River Police and Fisheries Department conducted a drive and arrested the fishermen on Sunday night for netting hilsa in separate points in a river.
Taltali Upazila Fisheries Officer Md Mahbubul Alam said, “The law enforcing agencies seized about 81 thousands metre net and 50 Kg hilsa.”
On September 29, the government has imposed a 22-day ban on catching, selling, storing and transporting Hilsa from October 4 to ensure safe spawning of the national fish during its peak breeding period in the country.
