Fish from other states, including Andhra Pradesh, can now be sold in the Patna Municipal Corporation area as the 15-day ban period ended on Wednesday. Talking to TOI over phone on Thursday, health department principal secretary Sanjay Kumar said, A final decision in this regard will be taken after a two-member team from Bihar, headed by fisheries department director Nishat Ahmad, returns from Andhra Pradesh and submits its report. The team had left for Andhra on Monday for checking fish samples, ice used in their packaging and transportation. Its report is likely to be submitted on Thursday. The state government had imposed a 15-day ban on sale of all kinds of fishes local as well as those brought from outside on January 14, following reports of presence of high levels of formalin and other heavy metals in them. Although the ban on live fishes was lifted on January 17, that on dead ones continued. Andhra chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu wrote a letter to his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar on January 21 and urged him to send a technical team to his state for looking into the allegation of formalin use for preserving fish. Thanking CM Nitish Kumar, Bihar Rajya Machli Vyavasay Sangh secretary Gautam Sahni said, Our sufferings will end with the end of the ban.