India has asked Sri Lanka to “exercise caution” and prevent casualties while cracking down on fishing boats (belonging to Tamil Nadu). It has suggested that the neighbouring country use a paramilitary force (instead of the Navy) to deal with civilian fishermen found on its territorial waters.
This was among the points discussed at the fifth meeting of the bilateral Joint Working Group on Fisheries, which was held virtually on Friday.
R.M.I. Rathnayake, Secretary, Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Fisheries, and Jatindra Nath Swain, Secretary, Fisheries, Government of India, led the delegations. The Joint Working Group met last in December 2020, according to a release issued by the High Commission of India, Colombo, on Saturday.
