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An Environmental and Fisheries Profile of the Puttalam Lagoon System, Sri Lanka

GCP/RAS/237/SPA. Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme for South and Southeast Asia.

Year of publication 2011

Pages 240 p.

Author Miththapala, S.

Category Technical study

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) RFLP funded IUCN to review and synthesize all available information on the environmental and fisheries profiles of Puttalam lagoon, Sri Lanka. The findings and recommendations were used to give direction to RFLP Sri Lanka output 1 co-management activities which led to the development of fisheries and mangrove management plans for the Puttalam lagoon area with RFLP support

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