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Symposium promotes community-based management of inland fisheries A number of foreign and local experts on inland fisheries will participate in a first-of-its-kind international symposium in Sri Lanka on reservoir fisheries management, from October 3 to 7 in Dambulla. "The Symposium on Participatory Approaches to Reservoir Fisheries Management: Issues, challenges and policies" will be a platform to highlight the experiences gained thus far in this sector, with the objective of formulating policy guidelines for reservoir fisheries management in Sri Lanka, organisers said. The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the National Aquaculture Development Authority (NAQDA), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Sri Lanka Association of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project will jointly organise the symposium. According to the organisers, the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Act No.2 of 1996 was a major step forward for adapting a participatory approach for the inland fishery sector of Sri Lanka. It mooted the idea that government should divest from this sector by vesting the management of inland water bodies in the hands of the community. "We experimented with this concept and the results we came up with are very encouraging. The purpose of the symposium is to share this experience with a wider network of professionals from the sector and to seek their inputs to formulate policy guidelines for reservoir fisheries management in Sri Lanka," said Peter Jarchau, senior advisor for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)-supported Fisheries Community Development and Resources Management Project. |
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