Background Zooplankton exhibit strong responses for minute changes in their habitat. Therefore, this study
intended to investigate the impacts of hydro-climatic factors and related water quality variables on zooplankton ...
Freshwater-based tourism comprises both tourism and an ecotourism component. The current study evaluates the diversity of freshwater fish in water resources that may suffer from freshwater-based tourism (Ecotourism) within ...
Samarawickrama, R. A. D.; Nanthakumaran, A.; Sivakumar, P.; Saravanan, S.(2023)
The abundance and diversity of planktons in selected village tanks namely Peraru, Nochchimoddai and Mamaduwa in the Vavuniya district were studied from March to April, 2021. The objectives of the study were to identify the ...
The Iranamadu tank is one of the largest surface aquifer found in Northern Sri Lanka. The capacity to harvest large amount of rainwater makes this reservoir a potential source for drinking water supplies. A study was ...
After the 30-year long civil war was over, the Government of Sri Lanka commenced an accelerated programme to develop the Northern Province. If not carefully planned, such a programme will result in the loss of biodiversity ...
Despite its small size (65,510 km) and high human population density (250 peoplefon), Sri Lanka supports a rich and dives avifaa. Of the 425 species and subspecies that Harrison & Warisik (1999) have recorded from Sri ...
Thondaimanaru lagoon is one of the shallow coastal lagoons in Jaffna peninsula. The current study was conducted to assess the present status of water quality and fish species composition of this lagoon. Water sampling was ...
Asmath, A.M.M.; Senthilnanthanan, M.; Zisath Shama, L.F.(2021)
Background: The Jaffna lagoon is one of the key marine resources in the Jaffna Peninsula, which provides habitat for a number of fauna and flora, livelihood support for fishing communities in the area and seafood for the ...
Anusha, U .; Senthilnanthanan, M.; Saravanan, S.; Raveendran.S.(2015)
The Jaffna lagoon is one of the main marine resources in the Jaffna Peninsula, which provides habitat for a number of fauna and flora, livelihood support for fishing communities and seafood for the local population. However, ...
The Thondaimannar scheme was designed in 1943 to prevent the ingress of salt water from the sea into the lagoon by erecting a barrage with sluice gates and leach away periodically with rain water the salt from the blocked ...
Naafir, E.M. ; Ragavan, N. ; Thapeetha, Y.; Sivashanthini, K.(2020)
This study evaluates the fyke net fishery and population parameters of shrimps inhabiting in the Jaffna lagoon. Catch effort and shrimp morphometric data were collected at Columbuththurai landing site from 2018 August to ...
Ragavan, N.; Dissanayake, D.C.T.; Kuganathan, S.(Sri Lanka Association of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ., 2021)
Jaffna lagoon (9° 50' N and 79° 50' E to 9° 20' N and 80° 30' E) is the largest lagoon in Sri Lanka and it provides many services including fishing opportunities to the people in northern Sri Lanka. However, the status of ...
Present study was conducted to determine the impacts of barrage construction on livelihood status of fishers who involve fishing in Thondaimanaru lagoon. The data related to the socio - economic condition of fishers in the ...
Jaffna peninsula which includes a land mass of 1026 km2 with 9.3% of inland water bodies suffers from
severe flooding during the second inter-monsoon (October ~ December) where it receives about 68% of its total annual ...
In many drought-affected areas, it is very common that the peak rainfall intensities are very high even though the total annual rainfall is considerably low and it results in severe flood hazards. During the rainy season, ...
The Vavuniya District surrounded by the land mass where there is no marine environment justifies the exclusive dependents of inland capture fisheries that is boon for the local fishermen's revende. As the Vavuniya town ...
Cultivation of Gerres oblongus is likely to be profitable because of the consumer demand. The values obtained for the mean weight by sex show that females were significantly (P<0.05) larger than males. Covariance analysis ...