Fish fries indiscriminately destroyed in the Bay
Our Correspondent | Tuesday, 3 March 2009
CHITTAGONG, Mar 02: Fish fries are being indiscriminately destroyed in the sea beach areas of south Chittagong including Cox's Bazar through using mosquito nets and current nets.
It has been destroying the fisheries resources of the Bay of Bengal while the authority concerned is quite mum in taking any drastic measure.
In absence of extracting fish through modern device and lack of proper breeding, the production rate of fisheries resources have alarmingly dropped to the lower level in the Bay, sources concerned said.
As there is no effective and realistic implication of the Fisheries Act, the fisheries resource in the Bay is at a stake while a section of the owners of the fishing trawlers are engaged in catching the fishing resources indiscriminately.
Sources informed, Cox's Bazar is earmarked to be the important zone of cultivating shrimps where a large number of trawlers are catching mother shrimps from the deep sea regularly.
As a result, a large number of fish fries of around 140 species have been gone deep into the sea along with the shrimp fries. The environmentalists termed it as a great threat on the fisheries resources of the Bay. If such unhealthy trend continues unabatedly, an acute crisis of fishes would emerge very shortly, experts apprehend.
Conscious quarters have called for strict implications of the Fisheries Act for protecting the valuable fisheries resources of our sea.
It has been destroying the fisheries resources of the Bay of Bengal while the authority concerned is quite mum in taking any drastic measure.
In absence of extracting fish through modern device and lack of proper breeding, the production rate of fisheries resources have alarmingly dropped to the lower level in the Bay, sources concerned said.
As there is no effective and realistic implication of the Fisheries Act, the fisheries resource in the Bay is at a stake while a section of the owners of the fishing trawlers are engaged in catching the fishing resources indiscriminately.
Sources informed, Cox's Bazar is earmarked to be the important zone of cultivating shrimps where a large number of trawlers are catching mother shrimps from the deep sea regularly.
As a result, a large number of fish fries of around 140 species have been gone deep into the sea along with the shrimp fries. The environmentalists termed it as a great threat on the fisheries resources of the Bay. If such unhealthy trend continues unabatedly, an acute crisis of fishes would emerge very shortly, experts apprehend.
Conscious quarters have called for strict implications of the Fisheries Act for protecting the valuable fisheries resources of our sea.