40 lakh shrimp fry seized in Barishal
A team of Barishal police yesterday seized 40 lakh shrimp fry from two trucks, and jailed 18 persons for three days for illegally transporting them.
Md Abu Sayed, district fisheries officer of Barishal, said two trucks with 73 drums full of the shrimp fry were intercepted near Shahid Abdur Rab Serniabat Bridge. The detained traders and workers of the trucks were produced before a mobile court of Barishal district administration, which sentenced them to three days’ imprisonment and sent them to Barishal central jail.
The arrestees confessed that they were collecting the shrimp fry from Bhola, that were being transported to Khulna and Bagerhat, he added.
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