High and dry: fishermen queue to weigh their catch
Boats which had queued on Sunday evening were still in line at dawn on Monday, with ten boats waiting to weigh their haul from the previous day.
09 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Fishing boats waited in line for 11 hours to weigh and sell their catch, as fishermen protested over the low amounts of ice following a record one-day catch in the south.
Boats which had queued on Sunday evening were still in line at dawn on Monday, with ten boats waiting to weigh their haul from the previous day.
Fisherman Ismail Shareef from Guruvan boat of Kolamaafushi island in Gaaf Alif atoll complained about the discrimination in weighing fish and ice supplies.
“Each vessel is usually given two tons of ice. But now some boats are given four tons and six tons. They do it after checking our political affiliation,” he told local media.
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