SRI LANKA COAST GUARD APPREHENDED A FISHING VESSEL WITH ILLEGALLY HARVESTED PROHIBITED SHARK PARTS

Sri Lanka Coast Guard personnel deployed in Negambo Fishery Harbour for fishery monitoring and regulating duties apprehended a Multiday Fishing Vessel along with six fishermen in possession of illegally harvested prohibited Shark fins and dried Sharks fish on 21^st March 2022 during on arrival searching formalities.

The apprehension was made while conducting onboard inspection in Multiday Fishing Trawler and found 42 Nos of Shark fins (approx. 2 Kg) and 05 Kg of dried Shark fish mixed with other harvests onboard when they returned after fishing. Retaining, transshipping, or landing the ‘parts of any shark species’ is an offence as per the department of fisheries and aquatic resources act 1996 no 02 order no 3(i).

The arrested persons with apprehended items were handed over to Fisheries Inspector Negambo for onward legal actions.