Good to Extend, Better to Optimise

Our Exclusive Economic Zone that is. Mauritius recently submitted, jointly with the Seychelles, for an additional 387,000 square kilometres -- that's about 10,000 square kilometres larger than the size of Japan. That would add to the million plus square kilometres we have already but which is underutilised especially when you consider that we imported for about Rs8.5 billion of fish and fish preparations last year.

How large a flotilla would the Rs5 billion Sithanen granted to the dead sugar industry have purchased?