1,500 kg jatka seized in N’ganj

Dhaka – Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive seized 1,500 kg jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 inches in length) from
a passenger launch on the Dhaleshwari River in Naryangonj early Saturday.Sources at the Coast Guard headquarters here said on a tip-off, a team of Coast Guard’s Pagla Station conducted the drive in the river around 4:30am and seized the jatka from passenger launch ‘MV Sundarban-6’ near Kathpatti area.

However, no one was arrested in this connection. The seized fish was distributed among the destitute people of Naryangonj district .(UNB)