Navy arrests 15 fishermen with 04 FGDs engaged in illegal fishing
 
 

Naval troops attached to SLNS Ranweli of the Eastern Naval Command arrested 14 fishermen with 03 FGDs engaged in illegal fishing using prohibited fishing gears at Arisimalai in Tincomalee on 30th September 2014. Meanwhile naval troops attached to SLNS Welusumana of the Northern Naval Command arrested one person with 950 kilograms of illegal fish catch along with an FGD engaged in illegal fishing using explosives in the general area of Seynor in Mandathivu Island, Jaffna on 01st October 2014.

The arrested persons with the items were handed over to the Pulmudai police and the Assistant Director of the Fisheries Department in Jaffna for further investigations.