Chennai, April 14 -- Already on the higher side due to poor catches,
the prices of fish and other sea foods were expected to further soar as
the 61-day annual ban on deep sea fishing by mechanised trawlers
along the East Coast of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, would commence
from midnight tonight.
People of this teeming megapolis are already feeling the pinch of the
as the prices rates of seafoods have skyrocketted due to low catches
over the last few days.
Yesterday, being Sunday the last weekend before the ban, fish prices
at the famous Kasimedu fishing harbour jumped up with the most sought
after Seer fish (vanjaram) sold at around Rs 1000 per kg kilo, white pomfret
(vellai vavval) at Rs 1,100 a kg. The prices of other types of fish...