The signature shore-operated lift nets – or ‘Chinese fishing nets’ – at Fort Kochi in Kerala are now a barely viable source of income for fishermen
Ornamental fish farming in the villages of South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, requires meticulous work, and even though income from the trade is uneven, farmers ‘raise’ the fish like their own children
In a fishing hamlet at Madh in north Mumbai, Koli families employ labourers from the villages of Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states for various tasks – to bring the catch ashore, sort the fish, dry them and mend nets
After polluting industries destroyed fishing in this village in Andhra Pradesh, the struggling fisherfolk, who have tried other livelihood options, recall a past of abundant marine life – while facing an uncertain future
For village women in the Sundarbans, collecting tiger prawn seedlings is unrewarding and unsavoury work – though the delicacy fetches high prices for others later along the supply chain
PARI presents a documentary on the fisherfolk of Goa’s Calangute village, who describe how tourism and trawlers have eaten their fish, why many have left the trade, and how some continue to go to sea
Half a century after a massive cyclone turned Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu into a ghost town, 400 fish worker families still live there. Abandoned all these years, they are now seen as obstacles to tourism development
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