Hyderabad: Customs officials seized 44 cartons of banned catfish fingerlings at Rajiv Gandhi International (RGI) Airport on Monday night when the cargo arrived in an Indigo flight from Kolkata. Sleuths apprehended two persons who had gone to receive the catfish. They said the origin of the fingerlings was Bangladesh.
Acting on specific alert, Air Intelligence Unit sleuths of customs kept a watch on 44 cartons of 'live fish' that had arrived as cargo.
During interrogation, the duo confessed that they got the catfish fingerlings smuggled from Bangladesh across the border into Bengal. The duo said they were supposed to transport the fingerlings to Bidar in Karnataka, where they will be grown in small ponds. Customs officials handed over the fingerlings to Telangana State Fisheries department.
"Catfish farming and sale is banned in India. Catfish is carnivorous and is dangerous to native aquatic species. Poultry waste and other animal waste are fed to catfish fingerlings and they gain about a kg within five months," said assistant director, fisheries department, M Rajaram.
17/01/18 Mahesh Buddi/Times of India
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Acting on specific alert, Air Intelligence Unit sleuths of customs kept a watch on 44 cartons of 'live fish' that had arrived as cargo.
During interrogation, the duo confessed that they got the catfish fingerlings smuggled from Bangladesh across the border into Bengal. The duo said they were supposed to transport the fingerlings to Bidar in Karnataka, where they will be grown in small ponds. Customs officials handed over the fingerlings to Telangana State Fisheries department.
"Catfish farming and sale is banned in India. Catfish is carnivorous and is dangerous to native aquatic species. Poultry waste and other animal waste are fed to catfish fingerlings and they gain about a kg within five months," said assistant director, fisheries department, M Rajaram.
17/01/18 Mahesh Buddi/Times of India
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