With the truckers strike going on, the state fisheries department has started keeping constant tab on prices of fish. Fisheries minister Chandranath Sinha held a meeting with fisheries department officials to discuss on the matter. “We are constantly monitoring and keeping tab at the markets and taking steps to check fish prices,” said the miinister. Fisheries department officials said that though there are no official report of fish prices increasing, the government is taking up initiative to check prices. “More fish will be sold from the refrigerated fish vending vans run by the State Fisheries Development Corporation. Fisheries department officials are keeping check on the whole sale and retail fish price in the markets,” an official said. “The State Fisheries Development Corporation (SFDC) and the fish cooperatives will directly intervene in the market to control prices. We will be increasing sell in the eight corporation markets,” said SFDC managing director Soumyajit Das, adding that more fish vending vehicles will be introduced to bring in and sell more fish through government initiative with the objective is to check prices and ensure normal supply.
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