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Thousands of northern fishermen faces risk of losing livelihood due to Indian bottom trawling
poaching by Indian fishermen has been ob the rise since recent past
Fisheries minister met South Korean ambassador Miyon Lee this week to discuss strengthening bilateral ties.
Sri Lanka and India meet at 6th Joint Working Group to discuss fishermen issue in Northern sea
Each reservoir estimated to lose 20 to 40 tonnes fish a year with water releases
Sri Lanka established committee to look into foreign research vessel only this month
Some fish coming ashore have also had plastic nurdles (polypropylene granules) that had spilt from the ship.
China is one of Sri Lanka's key export markets for fisheries
Australia to fund it
Sri Lanka Navy said it had arrested over 70 persons seized their diving gear along with over 10,000 sea cucumbers and sh...
No decision has been made by the government to license fishermen from India to fish in Sri Lanka waters, Co-cabinet Mini...
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will raise the issue of poaching in northern seas by trawlers from India, d...
Sri Lanka's Suganth Seafood (Pvt) Ltd, will start a 1.3 million US dollar factory to process sea cucumbers for exports, ...
HTCey Aqua Cutlure (Pvt) Ltd will invest 1.8 million US dollars to build a shrimp farm using new technology which will b...
Dialog Axiata Plc, Sri Lanka's largest mobile telco, will be providing location-specific weather and disaster warning da...
Sri Lanka's seafood exporters are targeting 200 million US dollars in sales from newly farmed king prawns within three y...
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Sri Lanka is unveiling a program to upgrade, rural agriculture, and diary and fisheries, which will boost their capacity...
Sri Lanka plans to re-take unused coastal areas released for aquaculture and salterns as part of a project to re-generat...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan seafood exporter Global Seafoods Pvt Ltd is to process Wakame seaweed, highly valued, fa...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's finance minister Mangala Samarawera said the government will allocate more funds to build fish...
A Chinese sea sand dredger working on a sea reclamation project near Sri Lanka's Colombo port had rescued two shipwrecke...
ECONOMYNEXT – The introduction of a Vessel Monitoring Service (VMS) to track fishing boats in Sri Lankan waters h...
Sri Lanka's fisheries ministry will start a conservation program to protect lagoon eco-systems which will boost fisherie...
ECONOMYNEXT – Earnings from Sri Lanka’s sea food exports rose 42% to US$ 241 million in 2017 from a year a...
Sri Lanka will seek private investments to start joint ventures at fishery including tourism services which will increas...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has initiated a project to raise milk fish (ChanosChanos) for use as bait by long line fishing v...
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