Retrieving the Katchatheevu islet from Sri Lanka alone, would put a permanent end to the problems of fishermen in Tamil Nadu, said Chief Minister M. K. Stalin on Friday, August 18, 2023.
Speaking at a fishermen’s conference in Mandapam in Ramanathapuram district, the CM said it had become a routine affair for the Sri Lankan Navy personnel to attack, arrest and remand in judicial custody, T.N. fishermen, who went into the Palk Bay to fish, under charges of poaching.
On every occasion, Mr. Stalin said, he had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take the initiative to intervene, upon which the fishermen had been brought out of jail. However, the Sri Lankan government had not released the impounded boats and fish nets that were essential to the livelihoods of the fishermen.
