A mobile court of the Chattogram administration in a drive seized 7,000 meters of current nets from the Halda River in the Noyahat area under Raozan upazila on Friday morning.
Executive Magistrate and Hathazari Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Shahidul Alam led the mobile court in cooperation with police, fisheries officials and members of the Integrated Development Foundation (IDF). The illegal fishing net was seized during a five-hour-long drive beginning at 12.30 am.
The mobile court also seized a fishing boat for catching mother fish defying government order.
UNO Shahidul Alam said that the authority will conduct regular drives to protect the only natural fish breeding ground for carp in Bangladesh, the mother fish of Bangabandhu Fisheries Heritage Halda River, its dolphins and biodiversity.
