Saturday, November 21, 2015

NFF Chief To Attend Fishermen Meet In Colombo

Director of National Fishworkers Forum M Ilango, Ex-MLA, is booked to partake in a South Asian anglers pioneers' meet, sorted out by the United Nations (UN) to be held in Colombo for four days from November 23.

His agenda incorporates meeting the anglers pioneers of North and Eastern areas of Sri Lanka and examine two-sided issues of the angling groups.
The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the UN had been counseling angling pioneers, delegates of national associations,



fish asset specialists and fishery researchers from everywhere throughout the world in regards to the way to guarantee economical work for little scale anglers.

As indicated by a discharge, the FAO had worked out rules in such manner in 2014. It was even consistently gone in a meeting held at Rome in June 2014 and was approved by part nations. It was chosen to hold gatherings at the mainland, provincial and sub-local level in order to guarantee the execution of the same.

As needs be, a Workshop for the South Asian nations is being held between November 23 and 26 at Colombo. The anglers pioneers, specialists, researchers and authorities from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Maldives are relied upon to partake in the workshop.