{"id":322132,"date":"2026-01-14T18:22:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322132"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:26:57","slug":"sri-lanka-to-enforce-6-month-ban-on-fishermen-violating-maritime-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322132","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka To Enforce 6-Month Ban On Fishermen Violating Maritime Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COLOMBO, Jan 14 (NNN-LNW) &#8211; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, announced today that, fishermen who illegally cross foreign maritime boundaries or deliberately disable their Vessel&#8217;s Monitoring System units, will face a six-month fishing ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regulation, which takes effect on Feb 1, will apply to the skipper and the full crew of any vessel found violating these rules, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ministry of Fisheries said, the measure is intended to safeguard sustainability in internationally recognised fishing zones and ensure compliance with global maritime standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fishery sector employs around 2.4 million people, directly and indirectly, official data showed. Sri Lanka&#8217;s total marine fish catch amounted to 415,490 metric tonnes.&#8211; NNN-LNW &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Jan 14 (NNN-LNW) &#8211; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, announced today that, fishermen who illegally cross foreign maritime boundaries or deliberately disable their Vessel&#8217;s Monitoring System units, will face a six-month fishing ban. The regulation, which takes effect on Feb 1, will apply to the skipper and the full crew of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":322134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322135,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322132\/revisions\/322135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}