While authorities are yet to find a lasting solution to illegal fishing and repeated incursions into Sri Lankan territorial ...

We publish below a recent statement issued by the Kayts Fishermen’s Action Committee in Sri Lanka. As fishermen we, like every worker and the poor in Sri Lanka, are in dire straits, unable to continue ...

Tuna fishers using gillnets in the Indian Ocean caught 4.1 million dolphins and other cetaceans between 1950 and 2018, a new study estimates. Gillnets are a mainstay of the tuna fishery in the Indian ...

Discarded fishing gear is endangering wildlife in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay between India and Sri Lanka—now researchers are talking to fishers to find out what can be done. There are thought to ...

Blast fishing is widely practiced in the seas around Sri Lanka, with even marine parks and historical shipwrecks not immune to this illegal practice. Authorities say blast fishers work as part of a ...

On December 18, 19 and 20, the Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) arrested 68 Indian fishermen and impounded their vessels for allegedly fishing in Sri Lankan waters. The arrests were part of intensified navy ...

A strict six-month fishing ban that can be imposed under existing laws and regulations on the pilot and entire crew of any vessel found to be illegally violating foreign maritime boundaries or ...