Tuna trawlers intended for destruction as part of a fishing cessation scheme are to be kept by the government to determine whether they have a historic, ethnographic and folkloristic value.

The Rural Affairs Ministry said in a statement this was being done on the advice of the Superintendent of Cultural Heritage.

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