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Fish­er­men op­er­at­ing at the Port-of-Spain Whole­sale Fish Mar­ket are ques­tion­ing the Na­tion­al Agri­cul­tur­al Mar­ket­ing and De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (Nmde­v­co) over new lock­er fees.

In an in­ter­view at the de­pot, fish­er­man Je­lani Mitchell showed Guardian Me­dia a no­tice stat­ing that the lock­er room agree­ment be­gan on Ju­ly 1. Ten­ants who did not agree to the pay­ment were re­port­ed­ly giv­en un­til Sep­tem­ber 30 to va­cate the space.

Mitchell said the fees—$200 for a sin­gle lock­er and $300 for a dou­ble lock­er—are un­af­ford­able giv­en ris­ing op­er­a­tional costs, par­tic­u­lar­ly fu­el.