Latest Illegal Fisheries News & Updates

Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) West Bengal Forest Department has ordered an immediate crackdown against brackish water fisheries (traditional aquaculture farms), set up illegally in the Sundarbans area scattered over South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas during the previous Trinamool Congress regime by destroying portions of the mangrove plantations in the region.The new state forest minister, Manoj Oraon, has personally directed his department officials to start the process of identifying such illeg…