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State Border Service confiscates fish-nets and other equipment

05 April 2007 [07:55] - TODAY.AZ
Fish-nets and other equipment used in illegal fishing confiscated by Azerbaijani State Border Service in the recent six months have been damaged, SBS officer Ilham Mehdiyev said.

He said that they confiscated a lot of illegal equipment. "There are 120km fish-net, over 12,000 hooks among them. All of them were installed in the banned territory. It prevents protection of bioresources and moving of vehicles," he said.

He also said that these nets and equipment prevented ships' service in the sea. Mehdiyev also noted that all of the nets were in banned length, APA reports.

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