Maharashtra fisheries department has planned a world-class fish market at Sewri on a 5-acre land owned by the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT), after receiving a positive response from the central government on the handing over of the plot from the port department
A group of volunteers in Dadar, Mumbai, known as 'Chakachak Dadar', is collecting thermocol waste from the fish market and sending it to a recycling plant. The volunteers took action after the municipality failed to pick up the waste. The thermocol is recycled into beads for making other products.
The state marketing department has officially scrapped the proposal for a fish and poultry market at Market Yard in Pune due to opposition from residents.