Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Felix Perera of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's Minister of Fisheries Felix Perera said Saturday that continued action by his country's fishermen to poach in the neighboring Indian waters could cause a diplomatic row between the two South Asian neighbors.

Perera said his ministry had to grapple with cases of hundreds of fishermen entering Indian waters.

In expressing his thanks to the CMC, Sri Lankan Transport Minister Felix Perera said that China "has always helped Sri Lanka, whenever we were in need.

The Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Felix Perera has gazetted new regulations allowing foreign fishing vessels to berth at the ports and anchorages of the country and unload their catch, official sources said yesterday.

At a special press briefing held in Colombo this morning Fisheries Minister Felix Perera said that he had already asked the Petroleum Minister to give a special license to buy fuel.

of the Mirissa Fishery Harbour last week.

Minister Perera was stripped of the Transport portfolio nearly a month ago by President Kumaratunga without citing any reasons.

Minister Perera had sent the letter to the President detailing what he did as the Transport Minister during a period of one year and four months.

Felix Perera has the answer, to the best of my knowledge he is one who is a leading butcher, who slaughters animals for his expansive livelihood in a Buddhist nation, where the taking of any form of life is taboo.

Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Minister Felix Perera said yesterday in Parliament that the Government had redeemed the people of the North from paying taxes through extortion by the defeat of the LTTE.

Minister Felix Perera is a member of the Sri Lankan delegation headed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa currently visiting the Maldives.

Minister Perera said more than 85 per cent of the Fishery Harbours of the country were destroyed by the tsunami in 2004.

Explaining how the war affected the fishery industry, Minster Perera said almost two thirds of the coastal belt of the country was under the threat of LTTE terrorists and no fishing has been possible for two decades.

Minister Perera was stripped of his Transport portfolio nearly a month ago by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

But Perera said it was he who did the groundwork and insisted on establishing the CTB, though his deputy is now gloating about it.

Question: Both the government and the LOEU are firm about not giving into each other.

Fisheries Minister Felix Perera is himself doing big fishing business and owes Rs.

Perera said he had submitted a cabinet paper to obtain Rs.

The Minister of Fisheries , Felix Perera is desperately trying to deny the charges against him which appeared in the Sunday (14th Dec) Times newspaper under the caption somethings is fishy in Felixs fishing Ministry, by claiming that his smelly business of fish is now run by his wife and not by him.