Myanmar: Workers Protest Lack of Fishing Rights in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Region

Sep 10, 2019 | Salai Thant Zin, Irrawaddy
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Fishery workers in Kyonepyaw and Lemyethna townships in Irrawaddy Region staged a protest against the regional agriculture minister on Monday in Pathein, the regional capital, over what they claim is an unfair distribution of fishing rights. In a longstanding practice that dates back to the colonial period, the rights to fish in lakes in Myanmar are auctioned off by the government to private businessmen on a yearly basis.