Bottom trawlers from India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu have been encroaching Sri Lanka’s northern waters for years, carrying out destructive fishing practices that have caused serious ...

Banner image: A mechanized trawler from Tamil Nadu, South India, was detained for entering Sri Lankan waters and for engaging in bottom trawling. Image courtesy of the Sri Lanka Navy.

This crisscrossing over the IMBL by both Tamil-speaking Sri Lankan fishermen from Jaffna and Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu met with no resistance until the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, when ...

The fishing rights of Indians in the region were scrapped in 1976 after the island was ceded to Sri Lanka by India in 1974. Today, Kachchatheevu is a site of frequent arrests of Indian fishermen.

Sri Lanka’s navy rescued more than 100 people believed to be Rohingya refugees who were found adrift aboard a fishing trawler off the island nation, a navy spokesman said.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s navy rescued more than 100 people believed to be Rohingya refugees who were found adrift aboard a fishing trawler off the island nation, a navy spokesman ...