Freshwater Fish Farming and more in Secretary's visit

The Secretary of the Provincial Ministry of Land, Irrigation, Agriculture, Fisheries, Livestock Development & Health and Cooperatives of the Eastern Province, A.R.M. Maharoof, together with the Director of Fisheries, S. Suthakaran,
recently travelled to the Ampara and the Batticaloa Districts.

As part of this trip, they met with individuals involved in agriculture, livestock, and freshwater fish farming in Illukkutchchenai on Sunday, July 8th. Discussions included matters relating to integrated farming and the ways and means to develop these sectors in Ampara District.

The following day, the Secretary was the chief guest at the first-year anniversary of the Kayalvizi Freshwater Fish Farmers Association at the 11th colony in Central Camp. In 1952, under the Galoya Scheme, 150 poor farmer families were settled at this colony on 600 acres of land, and the population has now grown to 2,300 families.

As part of the anniversary activities, the Secretary awarded prizes to the winners of a quiz competition conducted for schoolchildren by the Association. He also visited the sixteen freshwater fish ponds constructed there by the humanitarian organisation World Concern and inspected the condition of the fishes.

During subsequent meetings, the Secretary said that the Eastern Provincial Council hoped to renovate the three tanks [man-made lakes] in Annamalai, Panama, and Illukkutchchenai, for the benefit of Tamil, Sinhalese, and Muslim farmers and freshwater fishermen in the region.

On Tuesday, July 10th, the Secretary introduced 15,000 of the Thelapia Nirotika variety of fishlings at the Neelavanai Periyakulam tank in Ampara District.

Out-Board Motor Repair training by Sewa Lanka and World Vision

As part of its Livelihood Development for Tsunami-Affect Youth by Providing Vocational Training, the Sewa Lanka Foundation has trained twenty unemployed youths in Out-Board Motor (OBM) Repair and Maintenance.

The project, which cost roughly 1.1 million Rupees, was funded by World Vision. The participants were selected from the Muslim and Tamil communities living along the coastal areas of Ampara District and were provided with certificates and repair toolkits at a function held at the Sewa Lanka Foundation Hall in Thambattai, Thirukkovil, on Thursday June 21st.

World Vision District Manager, Nallathamby Nallarajah, along with Simmon Buller, a volunteer from the UK working as Management Advisor for Sewa Lanka, and A.L. Faleel, District Director of the Sewa Lanka Foundation, were present to award the trainees who successfully completed this three-month course.

Kadakkaraipalli Mosque receives NECORD Fisheries Community Hall and more

The Minister of Housing and Common Amenities, Mrs. Ferial Ismail Ashraff, was recently the Chief Guest at a function for projects related to the Kadakkaraipalli Mosque.

The Minister handed over a Fisheries Community Hall, which was built at a cost of 3.5 million rupees on the premises of the Kadakkaraipalli mosque. NECORD (North East Community Restoration and Development Project) quickly constructed this building within a period of only four months at the request of Minister Ashraff. The other purpose of the function was the handing over of a burial ground boundary wall, constructed at a cost of three million rupees, to the Kadakkaraipalli Mosque. The Kadakkaraipally burial ground boundary wall is within the purview of the Kalmunaikudy Mohideen Jummah mosque whose Chief Trustee, Dr. S.M.A. Azeez, took charge of the wall.

Both the fisheries building and the boundary wall were handed over to the mosque before the annual flag hoisting ceremony on Saturday June 16th.

Pottuvil Fisheries LAC Meeting televised [Rupavahini Eye Channel]

Rupavahini Eye Channel, 28 March 2007

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CASP-related Tamil language newscast of local advisory committee meeting in Pottuvil Fisheries Inspector's Office on fisheries sector issues.