Locals on August 2 caught fish at the inundated National Highway 57 in the Boudh area after ponds of the fisheries department got flooded following heavy and continuous rainfall. Incessant rainfall in Odisha for the past two days has left many places waterlogged. Talking about the incident, District Fisheries Officer Lipsa Pattnaik said, “Around two tonnes of fish washed away due to heavy rainfall. There is a loss of about Rs 9 lakh."
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00:44 Due to heavy rainfall, all the tanks are over flooded and near about 150 lakhs of spawns,
01:13 and 2 ton of brooder fish has been washed out.
01:17 So approximately 9 lakhs of loss is given to the government.
01:25 But on the other hand, the local people get benefited because it is shown that people
01:33 are catching fish in freely on the national highway, those fish which were escaped out
01:39 from the government fish market.
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