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Fishermen seek better prices as new season approaches
July 29, 2021
HYDERABAD: After a two-month ban on fishing in the sea, the new fishing season is set to start on August 1, but fishermen are uncertain because of the current market prices and the monopoly of traders and middlemen.
The fisher folk feel that the middlemen deprive them of their fair share at local jetties, which at times does not even help them recover the cost of diesel and rations they use on their boats when they go out to the sea.
Reports gathered from the coastal fishermen residing in different areas along the 350km coastline in Sindh are tired of exploitation. They have not been receiving a fair price for seafood, including precious shrimps and other commercially important species, as well as trash fish that is used for fishmeal used in animal feed, especially for poultry, farm-raised fish, and pets.