Depending upon the area along the coast of Jaffna peninsula, resident fishermen share different versions of the familiar story of “poaching Indian trawlers”.
” The circumstance is far better now,” stated K. Rajachandran, a fisher leader in Karainagar, about 20 km northwest of Jaffna town. “I would say the Indian trawlers pertaining to our waters has lowered by more than 50?ter the new laws were presented,” he said.
He was describing the time after Sri Lanka lawfully banned trawling in 2017 and enforced stiffer fines on foreign vessels discovered fishing in its territorial waters in2018 The relocation followed Sri Lanka’s northern fishermen had a hard time for several years, constantly highlighting their falling catch and disappearing incomes.
The Indian trawlers, generally from Tamil Nadu, not just crossed the International Maritime Limit Line to fish in Sri Lanka’s resource-rich seas, however also used a harmful fishing technique that practically scooped out the sea-bed, negatively impacting fish production and marine biodiversity. The Palk Bay fisheries conflict, which magnified after the war ended in 2009, posed a major obstacle to the incomes of Tamil anglers in Sri Lanka, who were trying to restore