The Sri Lankan Navy on Saturday arrested 12 Rameswaram fishermen and seized two of their mechanised boats on the charge of poaching.
According to information available with the fishermen here, over 400 mechanised boats had put out to sea with over 1,200 fishermen on Friday. When 12 of them were fishing near the Dhanushkodi-Thalaimannar region, the Sri Lankan Navy secured them and took them to a camp in Jaffna. They were jailed after being produced in a local court.
The names of the arrested fishermen were given as Xavier, 43, Raja, 44, Arockiadas, 44, James, 45, Ranjith, 43, Raman, 41, Muneeswaran, 30, Sekar, 35, Mukta, 25, Jeromiyas, 46, Padalam, 59, and Napoleon, 46.
