Grass carps for inland fishing industry

COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka Aquaculture Development Authority has introduced a high yielding Chinese fish species called Grass carp to the inland fishing industry as part of its accelerated aquaculture quality development programme.

The reproduction of this species is now under way at the authority's Udawalawa centre and will be continued at the Dambulla and Inginiyagala centres shortly, said Authority's Chairman Munidasa Premachandra.

The first stocks of 15,000 Grass carp fingerlings so produced were introduced to reservoirs in the Kurunegala district last Thursday.