ICG apprehends Bangladeshi fishing boat, crew members for illegal fishing

New Delhi, Nov 21: Indian Coast Guard authorities on Thursday apprehended a Bangladeshi fishing boat with 28 crew members for “illegally fishing” inside India’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the northern Bay of Bengal, officials said.

During surveillance, an ICG ship observed a suspicious fishing vessel conducting “evasive manoeuvres within Indian waters,” a senior official of the ICG said.

The ship, while on International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) surveillance in the northern Bay of Bengal, apprehended a Bangladeshi fishing boat along with 28 crew members for “illegally fishing inside India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on November 20,” the ICG said.