By Prof. Oscar Amarasinghe | Sunday Observer

By Prof. Oscar Amarasinghe

Swimming with the fish and fishing with the fisher
The bizarre story of trawling in Sri Lankan waters
Mechanised bottom trawling - a technique used to catch shrimp dwelling in muddy bottoms of the oceans is quite detrimental to resource sustainability. Sri Lanka became one of the handful of countries to ban mechanised bottom trawling by the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (Amendment) Act No. 11 of July 2017. Yet, this ban is hardly enforced within the country and trawling...
22 July, 2018
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