Official journal of the Sri Lanka Association for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. Also available on SLAFAR website. Full text articles available. Due to a backlog of submissions, SLJAS has closed the online submissions to the journal. The Editorial Board is working to process the articles already submitted to the journal as soon as possible. We apologise for the delay. Prof. U.S. Amarasinghe Editor in Chief Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya.