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Meeting in Ampara

The Selection Committee meeting in Ampara

The selection committee meeting was conducted with the facilitation of NAFSO being invited to government officers on 27^th September 2018 at Akkaraipaththu in Ampara. Representatives from NAFSO secretariat, ampara district staff and women district committee president, district fisheries trade union president also participated in the meeting. The main purpose of this meeting was to interduce the livelihood project to the government officers.

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NAFSO (National Fisheries Solidarity Movement), organizes fishermen to lobby the government to defend their rights and to bring about good environmental practice in coastal areas. ...NAFSO has helped a fishing community to take legal action against a proposal to build a five-star hotel on a mangrove where fish spawn."We are not against hotels, because they bring tourism and income. But 3,000 families and 15,000 fishermen use this lagoon and all of them could be affected by the developments. Only 200 would be employed by the hotel. The lagoon is our mother, and we must protect her." Jude Preman Fernando, local fisherman. At the present situation we are continuing our campaign with small scale fishermen to urge the government to take legal action against Destructive Fishing Practices around the coastal areas of Sri Lanka. View my complete profile

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Meeting in Ampara