The Fisheries Corporation has purchased fish stocks worth Rs 650 million from the fishermen who were unable to find a market for their harvest due to the Covid 19 outbreak in the country
The Corporation started buying the fish harvest brought from multiday fish trawlers on the directive of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Minister Douglas Devananda.
Arrangements have been made to distribute these fish stocks to all parts of the country enabling the consumers to purchase fish at a fair rate under the close supervision of Corporation Chairman and retired Major General L Davulugala.
The Cabinet of Ministers recently set apart Rs. 600 million for the purchase of fish harvest brought to the shore by fishermen as the fishermen faced difficulty in selling their harvest during the curfew.,
Corporation Senior officials told the Daily News, that fishermen had to sell their fish harvest at a very low rate before the Corporation started purchasing the fish stock.
Now fishermen can sell their fish stocks at a fair rate after the corporation started buying their harvest.