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MARGAO
The ongoing hide and seek game played between migrant fish vendors and the Colva police on the Seraulim road near the wholesale fish market seems to be far from over.
After the Colva police led by PI Melson Colaco drove away migrant fish vendors from the road two days ago, the latter were all back on the road on Thursday doing business as usual.
There was no police presence along the road on Thursday, giving the migrant vendors a field day, while authorized fish vendors in the SGPDA retail fish market have been left high and dry with the closure of the fish market after the lockdown came into force over a month ago.
Sources in the know said the migrants make good their escape from the road into the adjoining fields, no sooner the Colva police make their presence felt. And, they return to do business after the police are gone.
Sources say these migrants procure fish from fish transporting vehicles that arrive in the wee hours of the day, raising questions whether the catch comes from the jetties or from neighbouring state of Maharashtra.
A person in the know said that police should first crack a whip against the illegal and unauthorized vehicles that have been transporting fish in the city.
While the District Collector, South, had last week rejected the proposal of SGPDA to reopen the wholesale fish market, since it is not in tune with the MHA directives, unauthorized wholesale fish vehicles and the migrant vendors make hay right under the nose of the authorities.
