Onmanorama Lite App
The renovation includes wharf concreting, auction hall improvements, and drainage system repairs, addressing concerns raised by fish workers.
Traditional fishing communities worry that the high operational costs of corporate vessels will push them to exploit coastal waters as well.
Several fishing boats that ventured out recently have returned with losses amounting to lakhs.
Scores of families living along Vadakara coast have left their houses at the mercy of the sea and taken shelter at relief camps.
The Union Government, as per the Union List, is responsible for ‘fishing and fisheries beyond the territorial waters”.
Kerala owes a great deal of gratitude to the Norwegians for their generosity and for literally building a modern fishing industry from scratch.
The state had earlier entered into a deal with a US entity to conduct fishing in the deep seas off the Kerala coast apart from carrying out fish processing on the shore.
The decision reportedly followed a direction from Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who had earlier dismissed the opposition charge saying no foreign company will be allowed to engage in deep sea trawling in the state waters.
Kottayam residents not just cook fish dishes. They may even take a day off to fish, especially on rainy days.
The vehicle carrying fishes would reach Panampalam at 3.30pm, Gandhi Nagar at 4.30pm and Nagambadom at 6pm.
Results 1-10 of 16
