By Uzor Odigbo
Seafarers have raised alarm over scarcity of shrimps, prawns and other species of fish at sea.
They expressed worries over the constant fishing, which in turn, has led to scarcity of the aquatic lives and the possible retrenchment of workers by trawler operators.
On the platform of Nigerian Trawler Owners Association (NITOA), the seafarers also decried the incessant hunting by numerous fishing companies in the last 10 months without recess to be responsible for the drought.
They however called on the Nigerian government to regulate fishing activities on the nation’s waterways.
A former National President of the Nigeria Merchant Navy Officers and Water Transport Senior Staff Association, Captain Thomas Kemewerigha, had called on government agencies to enforce regulations on trawlers’ activities at sea, advocating the need to streamline fishing activities as part of measures to ascertain where fishing activities should take place periodically. But members of the Fishing Zonal Council of the union said Monday in Lagos that source of sea protein has been threatened due to the constant hunting by trawlers.