{"id":37203,"date":"2020-04-12T12:37:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T07:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/?p=37203"},"modified":"2020-04-12T17:40:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T12:10:59","slug":"fishermen-are-allowed-to-go-to-sea-in-corona-but-where-is-the-business-exports-declined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/fishermen-are-allowed-to-go-to-sea-in-corona-but-where-is-the-business-exports-declined\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishermen are allowed to go to sea in Corona but where is the business? Exports declined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corona Virus &#8211; The state government has lifted the earlier ban on fishermen from going to sea in the wake of the lock-down announced due to the epidemic of Covid-19. Government also begun to issue tokens to fishermen.<\/p>\n<p>They will be able to catch Fish, shrimp, processing &amp; packaging, cold chain maintenance and transportation.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Production and export of fish is reduced. <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As per report of &#8216;Marine Products Export Development Authority&#8217; 3,12,568 tonnes of marine products were exported in 2017-18, it was reduced to 3,05,326 tonnes in 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>During the year 2017-18, $ 843 million worth of marine products was exported from the state. While export figures have dropped to $ 798 million in the year 2018-19.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What happened to the law<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The law of Gujarat&#8217;s fishermen are only one to do fishing activity at the coast of Gujarat is not followed by everyone. There is a law that fishermen of Gujarat cannot fish in the ocean of Maharashtra. But fishermen not from Gujarat are fishing in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Fishermen from another state caught fishing in Gujarat will fine of up to one lakh rupees. A penalty of 5 times the value of the fish caught will be charged.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corona Virus &#8211; The state government has lifted the earlier ban on fishermen from going to sea in the wake of the lock-down announced due to the epidemic of Covid-19. Government also begun to issue tokens to fishermen. They will be able to catch Fish, shrimp, processing &amp; packaging, cold chain maintenance and transportation. Production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[54,7,6387],"tags":[5978,7677,4821,6992,339,5043,7675,7659,143,7676,7678],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUKPQ-9G3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37218,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37203\/revisions\/37218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}