Team Herald
PANJIM: The 61-day annual fishing ban, to facilitate fish breeding during the season, will come into force from Friday, and over 1500 trawlers in the State will drop anchor. The uniform fishing ban will be implemented in Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The Fisheries Department’s notification states that the ban is with regard to the need to conserve fish, and prohibits fishing by vessels fitted with mechanical means of propulsion and by means of trawl-net and purse-seine net.
