{"id":2796,"date":"2026-02-24T22:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:47:35","slug":"milenge-seizes-seventy-illegal-fishing-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=2796","title":{"rendered":"MILENGE SEIZES SEVENTY ILLEGAL FISHING NETS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Milenge District Livestock and Fisheries department has seized over 70 illegal fishing nets during an operation to enforce the 2026 fishing ban.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">District Livestock and Fisheries Assistant Coordinating Officer, Kelvin Nkhata disclosed this, saying the confiscated equipment includes monofilament and seine nets, locally known as mikwao, many of which were made from Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets (ITNs).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThese materials are illegal and have been removed and destroyed to protect the fishery,\u201d Mr. Nkhata said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">He further confirmed that the enforcement operation had so far not resulted in any arrests, as most fishermen abandoned their equipment and fled when authorities arrived on the riverbanks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mr Nkhata said enforcement efforts involved close collaboration with the Zambia Police Service, Immigration, local authorities, and National Parks and Wildlife officials to ensure compliance.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">He bemoaned reports of some stakeholders who were allegedly assisting fishermen in circumventing the ban.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milenge District Livestock and Fisheries department has seized over 70 illegal fishing nets during an operation to enforce the 2026 fishing ban. District Livestock and Fisheries Assistant Coordinating Officer, Kelvin Nkhata disclosed this, saying the confiscated equipment includes monofilament and seine nets, locally known as mikwao, many of which were made from Insecticide Treated Mosquito [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-crime","category-law-and-order","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}