Rameswaram: In a fresh incident in the high seas, seven Tamil Nadu fishermen from Mandapam near here were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy in the wee hours of Thursday for allegedly fishing in their territorial waters while fishing near Neduntheevu in the Palk Straits and impounded two of their boats.
Reports reaching here said that the fishermen were taken by the Island Navy personnel to Kankesan-thurai naval camp in Northern Sri Lanka for questioning and then handed over to the Fisheries department office in Jaffna for further legal procedures against them, reports said. The two boats were safely taken to Karainagar fishing port in Northern Sri Lanka.
Recently, on July 9, three fishermen from Jagadapattinam in Pudukkottai district were detained off Karainagar in northern Sri Lanka, for allegedly fishing in the Lankan waters.
This is the third instance of arrest of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Lankan Navy this month, even as the Island nation has enacted a tougher legislation to ban bottom trawling and for imposing unprecedented level of fines for 'breaching' into their territorial waters on poor fishermen from Tamil Nadu.
