KARACHI, July 9: Officials of Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) and elected representatives of fishermen community would be meeting next week to sort out various contentious issues pertaining to the Karachi Fish Harbour, it is learnt.

The issues which are likely to dominate the meeting include the rent of harbour property and facilities, a dispute which has become a bone of contention between the FCS and Karachi Fisheries Harbour Authority.

The fisheries sources told Dawn that the FCS chairman, Sardar Manzoor Ali Panhwar, who is also the Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, had scheduled the meeting for July 19.

It will be the first meeting of the recently reconstituted Board of Directors of the FCS after the election of its new chairman and vice-chairman on May 24.

The sources attach great importance to the meeting as it is being held in the backdrop of the special general body meeting requisitioned by 57 members of the FCS.