FISH WORKERS FORUM TO OBSERVE”BLACK DAY

FISH WORKERS FORUM TO

OBSERVE”BLACK DAY

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The National Fish Workers Forum will observe Aug 9 as 'black day' across the country to press for various demands including measures to protect sea, harbours and water bodies from encroachers. Fish workers would take out protest marches and sit-ins in different centres including Thiruvananthapuram, the Federation leaders told reporters here. They said the country's territorial sea both on the western and eastern coasts suffered "huge degradation" due to a host of factors including dumping of sewage. It was the fishing community that was directly affected on account of this, they said. The Central government should include the fish industry in the National Action Plan of the Prime Minister and also form a separate ministry for fisheries at the Centre, they said.

                                                                 Prof. John Kurakar