Providing facilities, incentives and subsidies to fishing community, Goa to soon balance costs through Fisheries Corporation

Panaji, July 15: Moving ahead to keep a check on the prices of fish, the key kitchen staple in the coastal state, Goa CM Pramod Sawant on Monday said that his government was planning to set up a Fisheries Corporation.

 

"This would help to provide fish at reasonable rates to the public”, Sawant said responding in the state Assembly to Congress MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, who asked why a price control mechanism was not in place when the state government was providing a number of other facilities, incentives and subsidies to the fishing community. 

 

  

Sawant said that the authorities were also imposing mechanism to undertake preventive measures to ensure that trawlers from neighbouring states do not venture into Goa's boundaries for fishing during the period when the activity is banned in the monsoon season.

 

“As per the Centre's directives, a uniform ban on fishing during monsoon has been imposed on the country's east coast from April 15 to June 14 and the west coast from June 1 to July 31”, he added.

 

Further signing off he said that the fishermen were informed about the ban period and the police and Coastguard were requested to conduct patrolling in seas.