KARACHI, Jan 11: A non governmental organization working for environmental protection has expressed concern over the increasing pollution in the Arabian Sea, and has urged the government to take steps to protect the marine life.

Speaking at a press conference at the Press Club on Monday the NGO, Subh-i-Nau's chief Shahida K. Farooq said that overwhelming majority of the industrial units located in the city were not treating their effluents before their release into the sea which has polluted water and it was causing a harm to marine life, inlcuidng fish, prawn, crabs and lobsters.

She said that vegetables, using the contaminated sewage, were being grown at many a places in the suburbs of the city, from where these were being marketed in the city.

Ms Farooq also demanded that technically qualified people be appointed in the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency, which was the implementing arm of the government in the environment related laws.