Sri Lanka provides harbour, state endorsement, to Chinese fishing
In a move delicately endangering local fishing of the peoples of
entire southern South Asia, the Rajapaksa Establishment in Colombo has
provided facilities of a state-of-the-art fishing harbour near Colombo
and State endorsement to Chinese vessels fishing beyond the Exclusive
Economic Zone of the Island’s waters. A Company in China has been graced
with the rights to ply its fishing vessels with the flag of the
genocidal State in Sri Lanka and to use the facilities of the Dikovita
fishing harbour. While the Establishment in Colombo would get paltry
benefits, shoals of fishes coming from the Antarctica would be exploited
in the no-country water itself, before they come to South Asia,
affecting the livelihood of not only Tamils, Malayalis and Maldivians
but also the Sinhalese, fisheries sources in the island said.
Nowadays, with satellite tracking facilities, shoals of fishes are
easily identified in the no-country waters and are exploited by certain
countries.
Tuna catch in the Maldives has been heavily affected
in the recent decades by such pilfering takes place in the waters beyond
the so-called Exclusive Economic Zones. Maldives now imports canned
Tuna from outside to meet local consumption requirements.
The
exploitation in the no-country waters by certain countries could
escalate manifold if they get ground facilities close-by to unload the
catch, to process and to export. This is what the genocidal Sinhala
State provides to the Chinese.
According to the agreement signed
by the Board of Investment of the Rajapaksa Establishment with the
Chinese company, 90 per cent of the catch will go to China after storage
and processing at the Dikovita fishing harbour. Sri Lanka’s Fisheries
Corporation will get only 10 per cent of the catch, that too for a
payment of one dollar (around 130 Sri Lankan rupees) per kilogram. The
price doesn’t differ much from the wholesale price of local catch.
Four
Chinese vessels displaying Sri Lankan flags will be operated in the
fishing starting from this month and the vessels, now anchored south of
the island, are waiting for Colombo defence ministry’s clearance, The
Sunday Times reported this week.
The Chinese company would deploy16 more 150-ft boats, the report further said.
The
construction of the Dikovita fishing harbour near Colombo city in the
Wattala division of Gampaha district was started in early 2009 and was
completed in January 2013. Colombo media reports boast that it is the
largest fisheries harbour in the region.
The Chinese vessels
using a port at such a location means that the fishing ‘beyond Sri
Lanka’s EEZ’ will have a bearing on the fish schools coming to the
Maldives, Laccadives, South India especially Kerala, and also the island
called Sri Lanka.
The Sinhala State’s preparedness to barter
anything, bare anything and even to cut its own nose for the completion
of the genocide of the nation of Eezham Tamils in the island prompts the
Establishments in Washington, New Delhi and Beijing to more and more
protect and nurture the unitary and genocidal character of State in the
island. ‘Be anti-human if you want protection and prosperity,’ is
clearly their paradigm and message, commented a political observer in
Colombo watching the games of the swindlers of humanity.
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