Navy arrests 6 persons engaged in illegal fishing
 

A naval patrol craft attached to SLN Dockyard of the Eastern Naval Command arrested 06 persons engaged in illegal fishing in the general area of Upparu in Trincomalee on 21st January 2015. They had been fishing using an illegal purse seine net when they were arrested by the naval craft on routine patrol.

The arrested persons with the illegal fish catch were handed over to the Trincomalee Harbor Police for further investigations.