Pen Culture of Shrimp in Chilaw, Sri Lanka - BOBP/WP/60

This paper describes trials with pen culture of tiger prawns, carried out between 1986 and 1988 in Merawela village in the Chilaw lagoon of Sri Lanka. The trials were conducted by the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) in association with the Ministry of Fisheries, Government of Sri Lanka, and the local Social DevelopmentOrganization, an agency established by the Ministry of Fisheries to encourage development schemes in fishing villages. The Chilaw pen culture subproject, and this paper which repo rts on it, have been sponsored by the BOBP’s project “Small-Scale Fisherfolk Communities in the Bay of Bengal” (GCP/RAS/118/MUL). The project is jointly funded by SIDA (Swedish International Development Authority) and DANIDA (Danish International Development Agency) and executed by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). It covers seven countries bordering the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The main goals of the pro ject, which commenced in 1987, are to develop demonstrate and promote appropriate technologies and methodologies to improve the conditions of small-scale fisherfolk communities in member countries.