Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Mahinda Amaraweera said that a Lagoon Development Authority will be established to develop all lagoons and this will help to increase the fish production as well.
Minister Amaraweera was answering a question raised by MP Douglas Devananda under the Standing Orders 23 (2) in Parliament yesterday (8th Aug.).
He said that the public should take steps to protect the lagoons without disposing garbage to those areas. He said that by 2018 steps will be taken to develop all lagoons and said that they would take steps to develop the Nandikadal Lagoon and also make it deeper.
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