<h1>Fishing ban protects spawning season with patrol enforcement and penal sanctions for illegal fishing during the prohibited period.</h1> The Department of Fisheries imposed a two-month ban on all fishing and sale in general waters to protect natural fish reproduction and safeguard livelihoods in major reservoirs; enforcement uses camps and flying squads for water and road patrols, and violations attract penal sanctions, with hunting by nets during the prohibited period treated as a non-bailable offence.