Days ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Lanka, Minister of Fisheries, Aquatic and Ocean Resources, Ramalingam Chandrasekar has said that goverment level talks on the fishing ...

COLOMBO, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lanka Navy arrested 57 individuals involved in various illegal fishing activities during search operations conducted between March 8 and 20, according to a ...

highlighting that the use of bottom trawlers by Tamil Nadu-based fishermen remains the chief concern of Sri Lanka’s northern fishing communities. A Matter of Deliberate Encroachment The problem of ...

and took stock of the fishing crafts confiscated by the authorities on charges of poaching in Sri Lanka's territorial waters. The fishermen leaders had met their counterparts at Vavuniya on March ...

Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation, Bimal Rathnayaka, said such action by India would be deeply appreciated by the people of northern Sri Lanka, where fishing is their only ...

In August 2024, the state government raised the compensation for mechanised fishing boats remaining unrecovered in Sri Lanka from Rs 5 lakhs to Rs 6 lakhs. On Friday, the government increased it ...

He can never return his vessel from Sri Lanka. India must force the neighbour to evolve common fishing, right?” Jesuraja added. NJ Bose, another fishermen leader from Rameswaram, said the ...