India: Thottappally Harbour Needs Dredging, Say Fishermen

More than 100 boats, including that of the Police and the Fishing departments, have been trapped in the Thottappally fishing harbour due to sand accumulation, informs ibnlive.in.com.

Lack of Dredging Causes this situation.

Commercial Fisherman say that fishing industry will disappear without dredging.

Harbour Engineering Department has invited the tender for the dredging works there are no takers for the work.

“The Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) has a dredger in Alappuzha. But the Harbour Engineering Department prefers to entrust the work to some other contractors. It is a time-consuming process but the officials will have monetary benefit”, Thottappally ward member Raju C said.

Fisheries Minister K Babu promised immediate steps to solve the problem, but he failed to take any action in this regard.

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Dredging Today Staff, July 23, 2012