Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Sri Lanka plans inland fisheries expansion

In 2010 Sri Lanka produced 52,000 tons of cultured fish, in 2011 this is expected to increase by 15 percent to 60,000 tons and they are targeting 90,000 tons by 2013 support by a program to push up production. Jayantha Chandrasoma, chairman of the National Aquaculture Development Authority of Sri Lanka said "Sri Lanka has 12,000 inland water bodies with enormous potential for cultivating fresh water fish.

He said in "Anuradhapura in north central Sri Lanka for example a tank or reservoir in Villachchi had produced 700 tonnes of fish. There were 200 fisher families around the tank, the government are seeding reservoirs with fingerlings to increase fish stocks. Rohana Subasinghe, senior fishery resource officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization said "Asia accounted for about 90 percent of the aquaculture in the world". Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers

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