Sri Lankan Navy snaps fishing nets of Tamil Nadu fishermen

The Lankan Naval personnel cut the fishing nets of the ten boats and asked them to go back, following which all the boats returned to the shores on Sunday morning, he said.

Fishermen from coastal hamlet resumed fishing operations on August 3 after a week long stir to press for various demands, including the release of 77 fishermen in Sri Lankan custody, as the island nation has set them free. A resolution to this effect was adopted at a meeting of Fishermen’s associations in Rameswaram, state Fishermen Association president N Devadoss said.

This comes after the incident in July when fishing nets of five boats of Indian fishermen were cut allegedly by Sri Lankan naval personnel, who also chased away more than 2,000 fishermen off Katchatheevu islet.