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The boats were made possible through the funding of the Norwegian Government-financed FAO Trust Fund project
Sri Lanka hopes to ratify the international Labour Organization's 'Work in Fishing Convention (C188).
Japan has provided a JPY 200 mn grant to boost north-east fisheries infrastructure, and JPY 160 mn of a doppler network
India has been increasingly concerned over Chinese expansion in Sri Lanka's North
Younger people in Mahaweli zones have shown a high tendency to engage in agricultural activities with smart technology
Export-eager Sri Lanka sends 10,000kg of low-salt, high in fish oil dried fish and dried fish chips to Korea, Australia
No decision has been made by the government to license fishermen from India to fish in Sri Lanka waters, Co-cabinet Mini...
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will raise the issue of poaching in northern seas by trawlers from India, d...
Sri Lanka's Suganth Seafood (Pvt) Ltd, will start a 1.3 million US dollar factory to process sea cucumbers for exports, ...
HTCey Aqua Cutlure (Pvt) Ltd will invest 1.8 million US dollars to build a shrimp farm using new technology which will b...
Dialog Axiata Plc, Sri Lanka's largest mobile telco, will be providing location-specific weather and disaster warning da...
Sri Lanka's seafood exporters are targeting 200 million US dollars in sales from newly farmed king prawns within three y...
Sri Lanka is unveiling a program to upgrade, rural agriculture, and diary and fisheries, which will boost their capacity...
Sri Lanka plans to re-take unused coastal areas released for aquaculture and salterns as part of a project to re-generat...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan seafood exporter Global Seafoods Pvt Ltd is to process Wakame seaweed, highly valued, fa...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's finance minister Mangala Samarawera said the government will allocate more funds to build fish...
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| US Dollar | 305.1018 | 305.3339 |
| UK Pound | 386.9523 | 387.2371 |
| Euro | 330.8712 | 332.1141 |
| Aus Dollar | 201.0018 | 201.4980 |
| Yen | 2.0266 | 2.0278 |
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| Indian Rupee | 3.6453 | 3.5932 |
| Korea Won | 0.2342 | 0.2292 |
| Oman Rial | 780.3569 | 769.4973 |
| Saudi Riyal | 80.1114 | 78.9849 |
| UAE Dirham | 81.7952 | 80.6569 |
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| S&P SL20 | 2,573.80 | 1.00% |
| CSE All Share | 9,073.41 | 0.65% |
| Turnover Rs million | 1,591,766,524.95 | 1,029,335,694.32 |
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| 3-m bill | 21.72 | 21.79 |
| 6-m bill | 19.55 | 20.31 |
| 12-m bill | 17.72 | 19.28 |
| 5-yr bond | 21.00 | 22.53 |
| 8-yr bond | 19.42 | 20.55 |
| today | yesterday | |
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| Overnight Money | 13.93 | 14.00 |
| Gilt Repo | 13.50 | 14.00 |
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A Chinese sea sand dredger working on a sea reclamation project near Sri Lanka's Colombo port had rescued two shipwrecke...
ECONOMYNEXT – The introduction of a Vessel Monitoring Service (VMS) to track fishing boats in Sri Lankan waters h...
Sri Lanka's fisheries ministry will start a conservation program to protect lagoon eco-systems which will boost fisherie...
ECONOMYNEXT – Earnings from Sri Lanka’s sea food exports rose 42% to US$ 241 million in 2017 from a year a...
Sri Lanka will seek private investments to start joint ventures at fishery including tourism services which will increas...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has initiated a project to raise milk fish (ChanosChanos) for use as bait by long line fishing v...
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has proposed a quick rehabilitation program to re-build a fishery harbho...
ECONOMYNEXT – India has banned fresh registration of bottom trawlers in the Palk Bay area as part of measures to ...
Global Ceylon Seafood (Pvt) Ltd will be leased a 150 hectare area in Koddiyar in Sri Lanka's Trincomalee district for a ...
ECONOMYNEXT – A Norwegian research vessel, Dr Fridtjof Nansen, is to sail in Sri Lankan waters to assist the isla...
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