The government has taken initiatives to set up three modern multi-channel dockyards at Chittagong to resolve instantly technical faults of all sorts of water vessels, including the fishing trawlers in the sea.
The dockyards would be set up at Chittagong Fish Harbour on the southern bank of the River Karnaphuli under 'Multi Channel Slipway Project,' officials said.
Implementation of this project will help increase catch of fish as the trawlers would not remain inoperative for long with small technical faults during the full fishing season, hoped the owners of trawlers.
To be constructed with government's own resources, the project will have three yards and each of the yards would be able to repair two vessels at a time.
Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation director general and project director and multi channel slipway commander Syed Hasibur Rahman said the experts of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology had already completed the design of the project.
The infrastructure construction will start soon after approval of the ministry for fisheries and animal resources. The project is scheduled to be completed by 2013, he added.
Hasibur Rahman said currently there are two single dockyards in the fishing harbour. But those cannot deal with so many fishing trawlers.
Therefore, the construction of new dockyards in the public sector will play a significant role in the country's marine fish gathering, he added.
Fishing trawler owner Hazi Mohammad Ali said at present they hardy
get any room in public
and private dockyards to repair their trawlers. Therefore, many trawlers remain inoperative day after day for small technical faults.
He expressed hope that the new dockyards in the public sector would repair the trawlers quickly and help increase fish gathering from the sea.
Source : New Age
