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The fishing ban for key boats in the Thoothukudi district began on Friday.
The fishery closure period is being implemented in 13 coastal districts of Tamil Nadu for a period of 61 days from April 15 to June 14 every year in view of fish breeding and conservation of marine resources.
As such, as the fishing ban for Nikon began on Friday, trawlers and trawlers in the Thoothukudi district have been anchored off the coast of the fishing port.
More than a thousand fishing families have been affected in the Thoothukudi district as about 550 trawlers have been stranded. Maintenance work on some of the boats and work on repairing the net began.