Sri Lankan diplomats are in discussions with Somali authorities regarding the suspected abduction of a fishing vessel and its six crew members by Somali pirates. The abduction occurred east of Somalia ...

We publish below a recent statement issued by the Kayts Fishermen’s Action Committee in Sri Lanka. As fishermen we, like every worker and the poor in Sri Lanka, are in dire straits, unable to continue ...

New Delhi: The Indian government on Thursday summoned the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in New Delhi to register a strong protest over a collision between a Sri Lankan naval vessel and an Indian ...

Many of the Indian fishing boats poaching in Sri Lankan waters are “bottom trawlers” engaging in bottom trawling. “Bottom trawlers” are fishing vessels that typically drag large fishing nets along the ...

On December 18, 19 and 20, the Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) arrested 68 Indian fishermen and impounded their vessels for allegedly fishing in Sri Lankan waters. The arrests were part of intensified navy ...

The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 17 Indian fishermen and seized their trawlers for allegedly poaching in Sri Lankan territorial waters, bringing the total number of Indian nationals apprehended this ...

Amid recent arrests of Indian fishermen along Sri Lanka’s coastline — on charges of illegal fishing — representatives of the island’s northern fishing community urged the two governments to help ...

Four fishermen from Seruthur village in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu were injured when a Sri Lankan Naval ship allegedly rammed into their fishing boat, officials said. The fishing boat ...

The question of resolving the problem through negotiations is a joke -- a cruel joke! It is like a gang of robbers invading someone else’s home to steal things and saying: Let us resolve this matter ...