SRI LANKA - Ministry of Finance and Planning

Fish processing zones will be located at Negombo,
Beruwala, Galle, Mirissa, Hambantota, Batticaloa,
Trincomalee, Point Pedro and Mannar.
Fish products like dried fish, canned fish and Maldives
fish will be produced domestically. Importation will
be confined to highly specified products for use in the
tourism industry.
Local investors will have a good basis for investment
in this sector with the provision of infrastructure and
necessary fiscal packages.
Sri Lanka will be brought into fifth place among
49 countries which harvest tuna while expanding
production from about 90,000 mt in 2009 to 175,000
mt in 2020.
All inland water bodies will be converted into fishing
grounds. The scientists and graduates aqua culturists
will have jobs to contribute their knowledge to boost
the industry.
The marine and brackish water shrimp culture system
will be developed for domestic trade as well as for
export.
Cage farms will be established in Batticaloa,
Trincomalee, Hambantota, Negombo, Chilaw,
Elephant Pass and Puttalam on the public private
partnership basis. Individual interest groups will be
trained and form forward contracts with exporters.
Producers will be insured with an insurance scheme
to manage the risk of farming.
Shrimps, Prawns, Crabs, Lobsters and Sea Cucumbers
will be grown intensively in cage farms. This will be
promoted as an alternative livelihood activity. The
value of exports will be Rs. 10 billion per annum by
year 2020.
The younger generation will be attracted to the
sector with modern fishing gear, with the provision
of higher professional knowledge through an
institutional network (Eg- NIFNE, Universities).
The annual production of fingerlings will be increased
to 80 million by 2020. Fishery production from
aquaculture will be at a rate of about11 percent per
year and production will reach 130,000 metric tons by
2020.
Community based organizations (CBO) will link with
private entrepreneurs. The registered CBO’s will be
given authority to manage tanks under the supervision
of aqua culturists and Divisional Secretaries.
Sri Lanka will be a pioneer in the tropical ornamental
fish and aquatic plants trade in the world.
The youth organizations which operate at Divisional
Secretariat level will become young export builders of
the ornamental fish industry. The exporter and several
young export builders will form a buy back system.
Technical assistance will provide through government
institutions.
The demand for planting material for aquatic plants
will be met through tissue culture.
Fishing grounds will be identified by using satellite and
remote sensing techniques. Data will be transferred
to the control room of the harbour. That data will be
redistributed to the multi day boats and trawlers.
The Udawalawa, Dambulla, Iginiyagala and Nuwara
Eliya aquaculture development centres will be
developed with modern technology. Two fish
hatchery centres will be developed in affiliation
with the Dambulla and Udawalawa aquaculture
development centres.
Private entrepreneurs will be encouraged through
marketing and financing facilities, in the promotion
of the inland fishery industry including ornamental
fish production.
The Ginigathhena and Rambadagalle ornamental fish
breeding and training centres will be developed as
pioneer bodies where aquarium fish are bred, reared
and exported as lovable pets with inter links to local
producers and exporters.
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