SRI LANKA FISHING INDUSTRY SUFFERS FROM RETURN TO WAR
March 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo
WHEN hostilities resumed in Sri Lanka's long-smouldering civil war in July 2006, fish production in the country's eastern province that year dropped two-thirds to 26,680 metric tonnes from 72,580mt in 2003, according to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
This precipitous drop is the clearest signal of an obvious fact: war is bad news for fishing. Indeed, in 2003, after the February 2002 ceasefire agreement, the previously war-torn east produced a quarter of the island's total catch of 284,960mt. Then, with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...
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