A team of US Marine officials visited the Sri Lanka Navy Headquarters yesterday (20) to participate at the initial planning conference on navy patrolmen training for the year 2016.

Naval personnel deployed on a patrol craft attached to the North Western Naval Command arrested five local fishermen with an FGD engaged in illegal fishing using a monofilament net in the Kudiramalai sea area in Silawathura on 19th January 2016.

Sri Lanka Navy arrested three Indian fishermen along with a fishing boat (Dhow) poaching in Sri Lankan waters off Mathagal on 19th January 2016.