Sri Lanka Navy Arrests Indian Poachers

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Sri Lanka Navy Arrests Indian Poachers

Sri Lanka Naval craft attached to the Northern Naval Command on routine patrol arrested 9 Indian fishermen and an Indian fishing trawler poaching in Sri Lankan waters in the seas off Delft on 1st September 2014.

 

The arrested fishermen and a trawler were handed over to the officials of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Jaffna for legal action.

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Press Release, September 03, 2014; Image: Sri Lanka Navy