Port Blair, April 1: The Fishermen Welfare Association, A&N Islands has expressed its gratitude to the Lt. Governor, Lt. Gen. (Retd) A.K. Singh, Chief Secretary, Shri J.E. Prabhakar Raj, Senior Executive, National Fisheries Development Board, Hyderabad and Shri Vishal Jolly, State President BJP for taking up the issue of development of infrastructure and assets for the fishers and fishing industry of A&N Islands. The association has also expressed its gratitude to the Lt. Governor for directing the concerned authorities for construction of two hygienic Fish Markets at Mohanpura and Junglighat in Port Blair township and for directing the Fisheries Department to work out the quantum of timber required annually by the fisher community. This has been a long pending demand of the Association to provide log and sawn timber to the traditional fishermen for construction of Bonga Dinghi.