Here the petitioners state that commercial shrimp cultivation
involves the usage of various chemicals and saline water which
eventually makes the soil infertile and unsuitable for soil cultivation
and it further damages the environment by causing stunted
growth of the trees or their death, reducing the grazing areas for
cattle by increasing water logging, and adversely affecting the size
of the openwater fish catch as a result of the dumping of chemicals
into the river (Mohammad, 2011). The petitioners argued that the
government orders regarding commercial shrimp farming frustrated
the spirit of Environmental Policy 1992 (Mohammad, 2011