Awareness camp for fishermen
The state fisheries department organised an awareness camp for fishermen to promote the conservation of juvenile Hilsa fish.
The state fisheries department organised an awareness camp for fishermen to promote the conservation of juvenile Hilsa fish.
"Sri Lanka has two laws -- the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Act of 1996 and the Fisheries Regulation of Foreign Fishing Boats of 1979. Both these acts were amended in 2018 and 2023, providing for much stiffer sentences, bigger fines, and greater detention," he told the House.
At least 20 Kenyan fishermen were killed on Saturday night by suspected Ethiopian militiamen in the Todonyang border area along Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya, government officials and witnesses confirmed on Sunday.
They demand permanent solution to the issue.
India, on Tuesday, lodged a strong protest with Sri Lanka over an incident of firing by the Sri Lankan Navy during the apprehension of 13 Indian fishermen in the proximity of Delft Island in the early hours of this morning.
The marine fishermen, who had undertaken the sea voyage on 7 December from Bangladesh coast, had gone without food for a week during the course of the worst nightmare of their life after the fishing vessel had developed technical snag and was rendered unfit to move ahead.
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said officials from the Consulate General of India in Jaffna, have met the detained fishermen and were providing them with all necessary support.
The offline mobile application can be downloaded free by fishermen and boat crew members so that they can clearly know the GPS locations and the boundaries of the no-fishing zones.
Tamil Nadu state fishermen association leader Jesu Raja said that the fishermen from Tamil Nadu were being regularly attacked by Sri Lankan navy, Sri Lankan fishermen, and anti-socials in the sea and huge losses were being inflicted on these fishermen
On July 3, the Centre had moved the Supreme Court seeking closure of judicial proceedings against the two Italian marines saying that it has accepted the recent ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at the Hague which held that India is entitled to get compensation in the case but can’t prosecute the marines due to official immunity enjoyed by them.
