Pakistan Marines impound 2 more Indian boats, 12 fishermen aboard also caught

Porbandar

Within a week of the capture of 16 Indian boats with 88 fishermen aboard on February 19, the Pakistani Marine Security Agency (PMSA) today again impounded two more Indian boats off Gujarat coast with 12 fishermen.

The Pak Marines have captured around 53 Indian fishing boats with more than 315 fishermen since October last year.

The two boats (one from Okha and the other from Porbander) with a dozen fishermen were captured by the Pak marines today near International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in the Arabian sea off the Jakhau coast, National Fish Workers Forum Secretary Manish Lodhari said.

He said that the two boats had ventured in to the sea for catching fish four to five days ago.

Earlier on February 7, a day after the arrest of 11 Pakistani fishermen and their boat from Indian waters off the Gujarat coast, the PMSA had nabbed two Indian boats off the Okha coast with 12 fishermen on board.

Pakistani Marines had caught over half a dozen Indian fishing boats along with more than 50 fishermen on January 25 from near the IMBL off the Porbandar coast. On December 20 last year 10 Indian boats with 68 fishermen were also captured by PMSA off the Jakhau port of Gujarat.

Almost a dozen Indian boats with over 60 fishermen were also captured by the Pak Marines in October last year.

– DeshGujarat