Senaratne said subsidies will be given to be effective from February 15, through fuel stamps which can be encashed at fishery habhour fuel pumpos or nearest designated fuel stations.
Minister Senaratne said large multi-day boats of which there were 3,720 in the country will get 2,500 litres of diesel free at cost of 30,000 rupees a month.
One day boats, of which there were 876 will get 1,500 diesel litres a month costing 18,000 rupees.
Small outboard motor boats, of which there were 19,034 will get 250 litres of kerosene at a cost to the tax payer of 6,250 rupees.
Traditional fishery crafts with outboard motors of which there were 1,688 will also get 250 litres of kerosene a month at a cost of 6,250 rupees.
Last year large multi-day boats were also freed from income tax for up to five years Senaratne said.One fisherman was shot to death by the state in fuel protests.
Senaratne said an estimated 400,000 families on a food stamp program will also get 200 rupee worth fuel stamps a month at a cost of 80 million rupees a month.
Sri Lanka suddenly raised fuel prices because to battle a balance of payments crisis which sent the rupee down to 118 to the US dollar from 110 due to strong credit growth.
Credit to state enterprises was driven by losses at energy utilities. Sri Lanka's rulers discarded a monthly fuel price adjustment formula in 2004 which had helped match the balance of payments to domestic demand pressure and keep the economy and exchange rate stable.
Rulers also twice undermined a price adjustment for power, which should have been implemented by the regulator in June 2011 and January 2012. Failed rains and higher thermal generation was a key trigger of higher state credit.
