Fishing nets seized

A mobile court seized a huge quantity of illegal fishing nets worth Tk1.24 lakh while conducting a drive in two rivers of the district on Friday. Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) M Abdur Rauf Miah of Sadar upazila and senior uazila fisheries officials with the help of police craided different points of Bishkhali and Suganda Rivers for three hours from 6.00am and seized twelve fine nets measuring 12,000 metres. The market value of the nets would be around Tk1.24 lakh. Later, the mobile court destroyed the seized nets by setting those on fire on the premise of Sadar Upazia Parishad at 10.00am.