They were arrested by the Sri Lankan navy with assistance from the coastal guard officials, Sri Lankan officials said.
21 fishermen were arrested and five boats were seized at Kankesanturai while 33 others on five boats were arrested at Talaimannar on Saturday night.
"The PMSA arrested 18 Indian fishermen and seized their four boats on Sunday from the Jakhau region near IMB where they were on a fishing expedition," NFF secretary for Gujarat, Manish Lodhari told PTI.
Pakistan on Friday freed 45 Indian fishermen as a gesture of goodwill, but confusion surrounded their release, as Indian authorities here were not informed about it.
Pakistani authorities said they had released 150 Indian fishermen from the Landhi and Malir jails as a goodwill gesture before the start of Ramazan.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 12 Indian fishermen and seized two boats for allegedly violating the country's territorial waters, a spokesman for the Maritime Security Agency has said. The fishermen were handed to the docks police in Karachi, the spokesman said on Saturday.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 36 Indian fishermen and seized 10 boats on charges of illegally fishing in the country's territorial waters.
At least 34 Indian fishermen have been arrested and their boats seized by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly fishing in the country's waters, authorities in Colombo said on Tuesday.
A second group of 100 Indian fishermen was released from a jail in the southern port city of Karachi on Thursday as part of a move by Pakistani authorities to free 442 fishermen who have completed their prison terms.
Pakistan on Monday released 100 Indians, the first batch from the 442 Indian fishermen languishing in a jail in Karachi, after rights activists fought a legal battle in the Pakistani Supreme Court against their unlawful detention.
Bringing the latest instance of the arrest of TN fishermen to the attention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Stalin said 12 of them were arrested on Thursday and two mechanised fishing boats were seized by the Lankan Navy.
Pakistan on Thursday released 113 Indian fishermen lodged in a jail in Karachi in a goodwill gesture, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif to greet him on the holy month of Ramzan amid a war of words between the two countries.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 26 Indian fishermen for allegedly violating the country's maritime boundary, an official spokesman said on Thursday. The fishermen were apprehended with six boats late Wednesday night for violating Pakistan's territorial waters, a spokesman from the Maritime Security Agency said.
The development came as the local fishermen in the North have been protesting for over a week to stop the Indians from entering the Sri Lankan waters for fishing.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 122 Indian fishermen and seized 23 fishing boats on charges of poaching in the country's territorial waters, a spokesman said on Thursday.
Pakistan on Thursday freed 26 Indian fishermen, including one suffering from bone cancer, from a jail in Karachi as a goodwill gesture. Twenty-five fishermen will be repatriated via the Wagah land border crossing on Friday while Samant Lakshman Bambhaniya, who is suffering from cancer, will be flown back to his home in Gujarat.
The Sri Lankan Navy on Thursday arrested 32 Indian fishermen for alleged illegal fishing off the east coast, taking the total number of fishermen arrested during the last two days to nearly 70.
The Pakistani Marine Security Agency (PMSA) allegedly fired several rounds in air before capturing of 16 Indian fishermen and assaulting them in the Arabian sea near International Marine Boundary Line on Thursday, a security official said.
Pakistani authorities had arrested the six fishermen 80 nautical miles from the Pakistani coast on Saturday. They were sent to jail on Monday, police said.
The fishermen were apprehended along with their seven boats and handed over to the Ilawalai police in northern Jaffna peninsular on Wednesday by a group of local fishermen.
Sri Lanka on Thursday freed 33 Indian fishermen arrested for allegedly poaching in the country's waters, days after President Mahinda Rajapaksa ordered their release as a goodwill gesture.
Pakistan on Tuesday released 101 Indian prisoners, mostly fishermen, as a goodwill gesture as the crucial meeting between the home secretaries of the countries got underway today, which is likely to focus on setting up a mechanism to deal with the detainees.
Pakistan on Wednesday freed 315 Indian fishermen, including over 20 juveniles, from a prison in Karachi as a goodwill gesture, with officials saying that they had been sent to Lahore to be repatriated via the Wagah land border crossing.
Sixty-five Indian fishermen in nine trawlers have been detained by the Sri Lankan navy for allegedly violating the international maritime border.
Pakistan will release 315 Indian fishermen at the Wagah land border crossing on Thursday, official sources said on Tuesday.
This is the biggest and the fourth major incident of apprehending Indian fishermen by the PMSA since January this year.
Pakistan had announced the release of 151 fishermen on the eve of Modi's swearing-in. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is among the heads of state and government of SAARC nations attending the ceremony held in Delhi.
As many as 86 Indian fishermen have been arrested and their 10 fishing boats seized by the Sri Lanka Navy for allegedly poaching in the country's waters, naval officials said on Friday.
Fifty-five Indian fishermen were apprehended and their 10 boats seized by Pakistan authorities near international maritime border line off Kutch coast in Gujarat on Wednesday, according to Porbandar-based National Fishworkers' Forum.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 48 Indian fishermen and seized eight boats on charges of illegally fishing in the country's territorial waters, an official spokesman said on Friday.
Pakistani authorities have arrested 11 Indian fishermen and seized their two boats for allegedly violating the country's maritime boundary, officials said on Sunday.
The Lankan Navy also seized three boats.
Pakistan has arrested 14 Indian fishermen for allegedly fishing illegally in the country's waters, authorities said Friday. The fishermen, who were arrested by the Maritime Security Agency, are currently being interrogated by security officials. They will be handed over to police in the southern port city of Karachi for further legal action, officials said.
Fifty-three fishermen, including 30 from Rameshwaram, were arrested by the Sri Lankan naval personnel off Talaimannar and Jaffna early Thursday morning, Fisheries Association officials said.
Pakistan has finally released 100 out of the 629 Indian fishermen imprisoned in the Malir District Jail.The fishermen were scheduled to be released on Wednesday, but the process was delayed as Pakistani authorities said that the Indian government had told them to postpone the release.It may be noted that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had announced that the fishermen were being released as a 'goodwill gesture'.
Several Indian fishing boats entered Pakistan's Exclusive Economic Zone during the Eid holidays but a MSA vessel cleared the area and detained the five boats
Sri Lanka on Friday released 136 Indian fishermen who were apprehended for allegedly poaching in its waters, a day after India conveyed its deep concern over their detention and sought their release.
The fishermen along with their two mechanised boats had been taken to Kankesanthurai Port in northern Sri Lanka.
The fishermen were allowed to cross over the border after verification of their documents.
