The outgoing Sindh government has shunned banning fishing across the provincial seawaters for two months - June and July, sources said on Friday. Now, fish and shrimp hunt in the breeding season will continue across the Sindh seawaters, though Karachi Fish Harbor Authority (KFHA) placed the restriction for two months in its jurisdiction. With the partial ban imposition, no seafood landing will be permitted at the fish harbor.
"We [KFHA] have just placed the ban in the harbor jurisdiction," the official said, adding that elsewhere in the province fishing may continue as the outgoing Sindh government missed issuing notification to place the ban in June and July. The new fishing season will start from August 1, 2018 at fish harbor.
The PPP's Sindh government completed its five-year term in office on May 28, 2018 and quit their departments at once but failed to recognize its key responsibility to place the ban in a bid to help the sea relieve from the unabated hunts taking place around the year, sources said, fearing that the continuing fishing will ravage the marine life.
The shrimp breeding starts in the summer season including the months - June and July, which suggest the complete ban to let the marine life hatch its reproductions. The political interferences, sources said, upstaged the environmental protocols. "It is a political season and also shrimp breeding, so politics will win," experts said.
They warned that the ban violation will have its far-lasting implications on fisheries growth, as shrimp breeding stands at the stake and urged the interim government to look into the issue immediately after taking the office to help the fisheries sector survive the over fishing onslaught. There is also a need to impose rules on excessive hunts that had already brought down the volume of shrimp and fish species.
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