The Sri Lankan Fishing community uses Beach Seining, Lift netting, Gillnetting, Trammel Netting, Trawling, and other traditional methods to harvest fish for food. The Sri Lankan fishing fleet includes both indigenous and introduced crafts. For instance, outrigger canoes, log-rafts, beach-seine crafts and planked crafts are some of the most commonly used indigenous crafts in Sri Lanka. In addition the Sri Lankan fishing fleet also includes modern large scale boats such as 3½ ton boats, 5.3-5.7 m FRP boats, 11.6 m ‘ADB project boats’, 10.4 m ‘Abu Dhabi project boats’, Trawlers (236 GT) and 13-1 4 m Ferro-cement trawlers.