Members of the Board of Directors

1.	Eng. W.A.J.E. Fernando	-	Chairman
2.	Mr. Lakshman Hulugalle	-	Vice Chairman
3.	Mr. M.A.S. Nimal Kurera	-	Working Director
4.	Mr. I.L.N. De Brito	-	Director
5.	Mrs. S.B.K. Athugalpura	-	Director
6.	Mr. P.M.P. Fernando	-	Director (Treasury Representative)

Our History

The Ceylon Fisheries Corporation was incorporated in 1964 under the State Industrial Corporation Act No.49 of 1957 and commenced its commercial operations in 1965.

The CFC at its inception came under the purview of the Ministry of Industries & Rural Development with the late Hon. Maithripala Senanayake, as its Minister. The first Chairman of the CFC was Mr. S.S.H. Silva. Subsequently the Corporation came under various other Ministries until the formation of a separate Ministry for Fisheries in 1970.

According to the objectives stipulated in the Government Gazette Notification of 1965, the CFC engaged in the following activities.

Deep Sea fishing operations
Fish processing (Canning, drying and processing)
Production of fish by-products
Distribution and sale of fish on wholesale and retail basis
Import and export of fish and fisheries products
Import and sale of fishing gear
Construction and maintenance of fisheries harbours
Fishing boat construction
Providing repair and maintenance facilities for fishing boats
Manufacture and sale of fisheries equipment

However with the formation of the Fisheries Ministry in 1970, the Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation in 1972 and the Cey-Nor Foundation in the latter part of the “Seventies”, many of the above activities which were carried out by the CFC, were devolved upon these Institutions.

From this time to the present, the activities of the CFC has been limited to the following Core areas.

Purchase and sale of fish
Production and marketing of ice
Provision of cold storage and processing facilities
Production and sale of fishery by-products

It was during the 1980’s that the CFC commenced the production of fish fillet at its factory complex in Minneriya using Thilapiya (fresh water fish variety) as its input. This production facility still continues to produce packeted filleted fish to the consumer market.

The CFC was also given aid through the Government of Finland by way of a new 100 m.t. Cold Storage facility in 1986, which continues to provide services as at todate.