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A 39-year-old fish­er­man was gunned down ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing, soon af­ter re­turn­ing from a night at sea, spark­ing re­newed con­cerns about the safe­ty and con­di­tions at the Car­li Bay fish­ing fa­cil­i­ties.Po­lice said Calvin Sankar, of Ceme­tery Street, was am­bushed and shot around 3.20 am in front of the fish­ing de­pot. He died at the scene. Sankar, who lived alone and had no chil­dren, was well-known in the lo­cal fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty.Car­li Bay Fish­ing As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Im­ti­az Khan yes­ter­day voiced out­rage over the state of the fish­ing fa­cil­i­ties and the lack of se­cu­ri­ty in the area. He de­scribed the in­fra­struc­ture as “de­plorable” and poor­ly lit — a con­di­tion he be­lieves con­tributed to the mur­der.Khan re­vealed that un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion, the Fish­eries Di­vi­sion had con­duct­ed an es­ti­mate for in­stalling light­ing tow­ers, but the project was aban­doned due to cost con­cerns.“We’ve lost an­oth­er life. How many more do we have to lose be­fore any­thing is done to make things bet­ter?” Khan asked.Khan claimed sev­er­al vi­o­lent in­ci­dents have oc­curred at the fish­ing fa­cil­i­ty since 2018, yet au­thor­i­ties have failed to im­ple­ment mean­ing­ful se­cu­ri­ty im­prove­ments. He added that the as­so­ci­a­tion had met with the then-min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty in 2021, but he’s hop­ing to en­gage with the heads of se­cu­ri­ty un­der the new Gov­ern­ment.