Myanmar provides 10,000 fishing boats for fishery recovery work

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YANGON, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar government has provided 10,000 fishing boats to fishermen in cyclone-hit areas in country's southwestern Ayeyawaddy delta to help fishery recovery work, according to the Fisheries Federation Sunday.

In addition to those supplied by the Myanmar government, the Singapore government and the country's well wishers have also donated 200 fishing boats and 200 fishing nets to survived fishermen in two cyclone-hit areas in the delta area to reinforce the fishery undertakings after storm, the sources said.

According to an earlier local report, a total of 9,500 fishing boats, spoiled in the May storm, have been rebuilt for fishermen to revive their fishery undertakings in areas such as Laputta, Ngaputaw, Mawlamyinegyun, Phyapon, Bogalay, Dedaye and some other storm-hit areas in Yangon division.


Meanwhile, under an agreement signed late last year between a Britain-based international non-governmental organization, the Action Aid, and the Myanmar Fisheries Federation, the Action Aid provided a total of 10 million U.S. dollars for the recovery of the fishery sector in the Hainggyi Kyun in the Ayeyawaddy delta for a period of four years.

An additional 2 million dollars in aid for the fishery sector was also sought from another INGO of Oxfam, then report said.

Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis hit five divisions and states - Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3 last year, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.

The storm has killed 84,537 people, leaving 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured according to official death toll.


Editor: Wang Guanqun