{"id":59604,"date":"2020-01-24T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T01:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59604"},"modified":"2020-01-24T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T01:58:05","slug":"tanzanian-court-jails-8-fishermen-for-3-years-over-illegal-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59604","title":{"rendered":"Tanzanian court jails 8 fishermen for 3 years over illegal fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 24 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; A Tanzanian court on Thursday jailed eight fishermen for three years each after it had convicted them of involvement in illegal fishing in a national park northwest of the country.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The convicted fishermen will each serve the jail terms after they failed to pay fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chato District Court in Geita region in northwest Tanzania also confiscated three boat engines and one fishing boat which the fishermen used for illegal fishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court also ordered the burning of illegal fishing nets that were seized from the fishermen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erasto Anosisye, a state attorney, had told the court that police arrested the fishermen early this month in the Burigi-Chato National Park engaged in illegal fishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Jan 19, 2020, Tanzanian authorities declared a special crackdown on importers of illegal fishing gear saying the malpractice affected the fisheries industry in the east African nation. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 24 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; A Tanzanian court on Thursday jailed eight fishermen for three years each after it had convicted them of involvement in illegal fishing in a national park northwest of the country. The convicted fishermen will each serve the jail terms after they failed to pay fines. Chato District Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}