Dar es Salaam, Feb. 13 -- DAR ES SALAAM: THE Government has day in day out sent a message to fishermen, who may be involved in blast fishing to immediately stop the business, or else face the law.

You give it any name blast fishing, fish bombing, dynamite fishing or grenade fishing, but take note that this is a destructive fishing practice of using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection that must stop.

This school of thought is that blast or dynamite fishing, is one of the most destructive forms of fishing that indiscriminately kills any animal in the blast area-from fish eggs and plankton to whales and dolphins and devastates corals.

As citizens, we must support the government to fight such dishonest fishermen,...