Hyderabad: National fish festival drawing huge crowd

The national fish festival, being held here since June 7 in association with the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), is witnessing some of the best cuisines of seafood being presented from the whole country.The three days festival is attracting a large number of food lovers thronging all the stalls to try different fish cuisines.G Rathinaraj, Executive Director, NFDB, told ANI: "This is the first year, in which we have started this kind of festival. The basic objective of this food festival is to promote domestic fish market and spread awareness about the health benefits of eating fish.""Each of the stalls has two banners -- in Hindi and English displaying the health benefits of eating fish for the visitors. The first day we had around 5,000 visitors. Today we had around 8,000 visitors including foreigners," he said.People from four states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala have put up 20 stalls in the three-day long national food festival.Rajani, Assistant .