Rights activists formed a human chain in Jessore town on Friday demanding rights of fishermen to country's all wetland and jalmahal.
Representatives of 250 organisations from 40 districts took part in the two-hour human chain from 10:00am, which was organised by Water Resources Management, a non government organisation.
Later, they held a news briefing at Jessore Press Club where the speakers said that poor fishermen earned their livelihood from wetland and jalmahal which water bodies were leased out to fishermen for a 10-year period under different projects, but the term of the lease was running out.
Now they were worried about whether they would again get the lease, they said.
They demanded stoppage of dumping of industrial wastages into rivers and canal for saving country's fish resources.
They alleged that amount of oxygen was decreasing in open water bodies because of rotting jute there during the jute season, which made it unfit for fish farming.
Source: New Age
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