Naval personnel held a person for engaging in illegal fishing in the seas off Norway island,Trincomalee.
The crew of a Coastal Patrol Craft attached to the Eastern Naval Command, during a patrol Carried out around the Norway island, an illegal fishing net was noticed.
By further search the person who netted it, was apprehended.
The suspect is a resident of Muthur aged 30.
The suspect along with the net was handed over to the office of the Assistant Directorate of Fisheries in Trincomalee for onward action.