Abstract:
Aquaculture has got one of the quickest developing financial subsectors of the Sri Lankan
economy. Shrimp is a fishery ware that has the financial worth and significant food
arrangement in aquaculture. Shrimp trades are one of the Sri Lanka’s major familiar trade
workers and records for 40%-half of absolute aquaculture sends out. There has been an ongoing
and quick development of the business over a beach-front belt of around 120 km in the NorthWestern Province (NWP) of Sri Lanka and presently shrimp ranches cover almost 3000
hectares of the waterfront region of the NWP and Puttalam area likewise remembered for that.
This specific examination has been embraced in Puttalam locale and the principal target of this
investigation is to evaluate the impacts on shrimp aquaculture in Puttalam and the sub-objective
is to create proposals for upgrades in shrimp aquaculture activities to decrease the impacts. The
qualitative method was utilized to gather the information for this investigation. Secondary
information was gathered from books, journals and research papers and the information was
analyzed by descriptive method. The decimation of the mangrove biological system,
contamination, water struggle, water saltiness, soil saltiness, synthetic and water release,
utilization of aimless substance and medication, the spread of illness and parasites, biodiversity
misfortunes, saltwater and freshwater use are discovered to be the environmental impacts of
shrimp aquaculture and social clashes and developing joblessness are found as the
socioeconomic impact of the shrimp aquaculture in the Puttalam locale. Finally, the researcher
proposed main recommendations such as protect mangrove forests, impact assessment,
monitoring of ecosystem condition and trends and further policies and activities which are
helping to improve ensure the sustainability of the industry.
