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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. It is situated in the middle of Indian Ocean. Because of being an island, Sri Lanka has many endemic freshwater fauna, as well as thousands of marine and brackish water fauna. [1] Fishing is the way of life of most of coastal community.
Garra ceylonensis (the stone sucker [2] or Ceylon logsucker [citation needed]) is a species of ray-finned fish in the cyprinid family. It is endemic to rivers and streams in Sri Lanka (formerly known as "Ceylon") - and is considered as a schooling fish.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: D. B. Wijetunga [25] [26] Mahinda Rajapaksa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000: 14 September 2001: Chandrika Kumaratunga: Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development [27] 14 September 2001: Minister of Ports, Shipping and Fisheries [28] [29] Mahinda Wijesekara: United National Party ...
The fish is of commercial importance; it is fished internationally and raised in aquaculture in Australia, [14] Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Israel, Thailand, the United States, Poland, and the United Kingdom. [citation needed] A Singapore investment firm has invested in an upcoming barramundi fish farm in Brunei.
Formerly, Maldives shipped 90 percent of its fishing catch of tuna in dried form to Sri Lanka. [6] However, because Sri Lanka cut back its imports of such fish, in 1979 Maldives joined with the Japanese Marubeni Corporation to form the Maldives Nippon Corporation that canned and processed fresh fish. [6]
The low salinity and high osmotic pressure makes them so different. Few fish can be found in all three ecological systems. There are 95 species of freshwater fish occur in the country, where 53 of those are endemic. 41% of all known species of fish of Sri Lanka are found in freshwater. There are about 70% of endemism of those fish.
She joined the Department of Aquaculture & Fisheries at the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka in 2001. [2] In 2018 she was the National Coordinator for 18th Conference of the Parties of CITES . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2021, after the submission of a report by Jayakody to Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera , led to the creation of a Highly-Sensitive ...
Sicyopus jonklaasi, the lipstick goby, is a species of goby endemic to Sri Lanka where they occur in rocky hill streams of swift-flowing water. They having sucking discs on their undersides with which they adhere to the sides of rocks.