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Indo-Lanka talks to resolve fishing crisis: President
Sri Lanka will initiate a dialogue with the Indian Government to resolve once and for all the issues connected to illegal fishing and trespassing into each other’s territorial waters by fishermen of both countries, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday.He told the General Fisheries Federation (GFF), which represents all fisheries organisations of the country that the government was determined to make the fisheries sector one of major arms of the economy with maximum possible assistance to fishermen from the government.
“It is heartening to see that a large number of fishermen have come from the North and East. They were the most affected at the hands of separatist terrorism. The fisher families inherited an extremely cruel living as many of their members were forcibly recruited by the Tigers and subsequently killed. As a result the fishing industry in the North-East suffered a heavy blow with their production drastically depleted. But today they have the opportunity of going out fishing without fear or restrictions and they get plenty of government assistance,” the President said. (Sandun A. Jayasekera)
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