Dilanthi Koralagama

University of Ruhuna · Department of Economics

The study was carried out to evaluate the physicochemical and microbiological properties of selected dried fish (Boat dried fish, local- land dried fish, and imported dried fish) and Maldive fish samples from markets in Colombo (CD) and Matara (MD) districts. Dried fish samples of the Shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelami...

The dried fish industry is a diverse and dynamic sub-sector nurturing upon the fisheries sector yet mostly invisible and poorly documented. Hence, this study aims to identify the diverse value chains, roles, and main functions, different pricing strategies, and price information sources of sprats, skipjack tuna, and smoothbelly sardinella, which ar...

Dried fish consumption is ever becoming popularized locally and globally due to its micro-nutrient content, semi-perishability, and taste. The outcomes uncovered that physical quality attributes are the main choosing factors for dried fish. Perceptions and buying behavior of consumers are highly varied on dried fish varieties, purchasing level and...

Price is identified as the signal of the product indicating its availability in the market. Frequent price fluctuations adversely affect manfacturing industry performances including dried fish. Besides, dried fish prices fluctuate following the seasonality of fresh fish. However, several factors affect dried fish pricing other than seasonality. Thu...

Value-added activities, chain structures, and middlemen impact are incomprehensible in the dried fish economy. Processors have a significant impact at the initial stage of the value chain, but little control over value chain management; however vastly monopolized by intermediaries. Yet, the processors receive poor returns compared to other actors i...

The degree of value addition in dried fish products is critical in price determination. However, price determination and profitability analysis are critical in shaping the structure, conduct, and performance of the dried fish market. Having lesser studies on dried fish value chain analysis, lacunae exist in determining of relevant market prices and...

Dried fish acts as a rich source of animal proteins (<56.84%), minerals (<29.19%) and lipids (<18.45%), thus contributing towards the nutritional security of human beings. The consumption of dried fish has increased locally as well as globally. Food safety, convenience of buying, versatility, affordability, quality and quantity are other applicable...

Small-pelagic dried fish varieties are consumed in several dishes in Sri Lankan cuisine and provide essential nutrition, irrespective of people's income levels. Smoothbelly sardinella (Amblygaster cluepeoides) is a major dried fish variety with high consumption in Sri Lanka. Prices, value creation, processing and handling practices are important in...

Sri Lankan seafood offers a variety of products to the international market contributing 2.2% to the Sri Lankan total merchandise exports. Non-tariff measures (NTMs) bring numerous difficulties to access the international seafood market, and most of the seafood industry companies have to encounter these NTMs. This study aims to unravel the present...

Sri Lankan seafood offers a variety of products to the international market contributing 2.2% to the Sri Lankan total merchandise exports. Non-tariff measures (NTMs) bring numerous difficulties to access to the international seafood market and the most of companies in the seafood industry have to encounter with these NTMs. This study aims to unrave...

Dried fish plays an important role in human nutrition in Sri Lanka by supplying more than 60 percent of the total animal protein intake for the populace. Despite of the high consumption of fish and chicken, dried fish remains at the third place against the increasing prices. Dried fish prices have increased drastically from 2012 in compared to fish...

Dried fish plays an important role in human nutrition in Sri Lanka by supplying more than 60% of the total animal protein intake for the populace. Despite of the high consumption of fish and chicken, dried fish remains at the third place against the increasing prices. Dried fish prices have increased drastically from 2012 in compared to fish and ch...

Dried fish plays an important role in the national economy in multiple ways including minimizing post-harvest losses of fish providing a source of animal protein, enlarging livelihoods, utilizing idling labor into the production process and as a dish, especially for rural poor. Dried fish prices have increased drastically from 2012 to 2019 compared...

Potentials and Challenges in Expanding Inland Fishery, Sri Lanka Inland fish varieties fisheries resources

Every southwest monsoon, men and women from the west coast fishing villages migrate to east coast villages, leaving their homes and their children and their school-age children behind with kin. This monograph is an exploration of the motivations and aspirations that drive an internal process of seasonal fisheries migration. It focusses on the gende...

Households in fishing communities on the west and east coasts of Sri Lanka engage in internal seasonal migration (coastal and coast to coast) to pursue small-scale fishing and fisheries-based livelihoods. The chapter focuses on the material, relational, and subjective factors underlying the households’ gendered decision-making, using a social well-...

Social networks are significant for enabling or constraining migration in coastal communities in Sri Lanka. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative data from four fishing communities in Puttalam District and Trincomalee District, the chapter explores the structure and processes of social relations based on kin, community, and religious organiz...

Being a traditional source of animal protein in local diet, dried fish accounts for 4% in Sri Lankan average monthly household expenditure. Although, 70% of local dried fish products come from North & East Provinces, a production oriented dried fish studies are lacking. This study aims to investigate producer based intra & inter relationships & soc...

Community Based Eco-tourism (CBET) ventures are managed and operated by the community in the peripheral areas of a nature based recreation area. In these ventures, local people engage in planning and management decisions and are entitled to profits. Rekawa, located in southern Sri Lanka is an area with abundant natural resources that provide the ba...

Food price inflation was one of the major crises mooted in recent past. Marginalized poor people were hammered largely in developing countries including Sri Lanka. The awareness and preparedness for food crisis can reduce the impact as well as the social conflicts up to a certain extent. Hence, this study was designed to find out the awareness and...

Over the last decade, the concept of well-being has experienced a surge of interest in international development debate about how it might offer a holistic, people-centred, and perhaps more meaningful interpretation of development and progress, which moves us beyond narrow economic measures such as gross domestic product (GDP) (Gough and McGregor 2...

This paper introduces a 3-dimensional framework for exploring social wellbeing which combines objective, relational (social) and subjective dimensions – arguing that all three are necessary for a fully rounded notion of wellbeing. The paper first describes how this 3D framework was operationalized to empirically research wellbeing in fishing com...

This paper introduces a 3-dimensional framework for exploring social wellbeing which combines objective, relational (social) and subjective dimensions – arguing that all three are necessary for a fully rounded notion of wellbeing. The paper first describes how this 3D framework was operationalized to empirically research wellbeing in fishing com...

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Higher Education (HE) and the capabilities of the internet have added value to university teaching and learning. It has also tested the resolve of universities to maximise the benefits of technology integration amidst increasing class sizes, student expectations, cultural diversity and...

In this millennium all the development activities are mostly focused on sustainable development, i.e. the development which fulfils the requirements of the present without disturbing the utilization of future generation. Basically, the sustainable development deals with environmental, social, and economical initiations. In relation to these three o...

Vulnerability leads to poverty; poverty leads to vulnerability, a controversial two concepts without an end nor a start. From recent past, poverty has been addressed in terms of vulnerability. There, the possible ways to be vulnerable is stressed to investigate. Risks, shocks, and uncertainty have been identified as the profound sources of vulnerab...