Northern Fishers Union core team meets on fisher's dialogue

The core team of Northern Province Fishers unity met at Jaffna with the intention of discussing the forthcoming people to people dialogue on Indian trawler invasion to Sri Lankan waters.
The chairs of K. Suriyakumar, A. Alam and the representatives of Mannar, Jaffna, Kilinochchi attended the core team meeting.
The team emphasised the 18 point agreement which agreed by the NPFPU and stick to those principles for future negotiattions.
" We are strongly demand to prevent the Indian trawler invasion in to SL  waters. We can not tolerate the bottom trawler operations in our waters. " said K. Suriyakumar the chair of the unity.

The co chair A.Alam of Mannar district is very concerned about  the sustenance of fisheries in Palk bay.
"Our fishers are highly concern about our fish redources. They do not use even the oxygen cylinders for collect Sea Cucumbers. How do we tolerate the destruction of our sea bottom through pair trawls?"
S. Subramaniyam the leader of Mathagal fishing community says "we need to declare the Palk bay and northern sea as a fisheries management area where declare the appropriate fishing gears to use, restore the desturbed areas conciously, banning harmful gears and also identify appropriate number of fishers to operate in the northern waters."
On the dialogue on 12th May people felt there is no high hopes. But appreciate the attempts to solve the problem. They welcome the idea of buy back system, convert the pair trawlers in to Indian deep sea water fisheries are also welcome by the team.
There was serious concern about the by passing of the previous experienced the northern province fisher people's unity members who attended for the dialogue at Tamil Nadu in 2010.
The group agreed that we need to initiate an overall plan for the development of northern ses areas with mediation of northern province provincial council.
In this plan there should be an overall strategy to regulate the southern fishers invasion into northern seas with political and military patronage. Fisher leaders came to an agreement to meet again once the 12th meeting is over between the Indian and Sri Lanka. fishermen.