ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s top officials held discussions to enhance inter-agency coordination and implement technological solutions to ensure real-time monitoring of fishing vessels with an aim to curb illegal fishing by local and foreign vessels as well as to prevent drug trafficking, the government said. The move comes as the government has started a campaign to eradicate drug menace with large amount of drugs being trafficked through fishing vessels amid continuous poaching by Indian fishing vessels in the island nation’s Northern sea. The high-level meeting held at the Parliament on Tuesday aimed at reviewing strategies for curbing illegal fishing and…
Sri Lanka focuses on inter-agency cooperation to prevent illegal fishing, drug trafficking
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