Traditional Fishing Communities

August 02, 2023

Monsoon sea swells are gnawing at lives along Vadakara coast

Scores of families living along Vadakara coast have left their houses at the mercy of the sea and taken shelter at relief camps.

July 21, 2021
Opinion | The Blue Lining – Indian Marine Fisheries Bill 2021

The Union Government, as per the Union List, is responsible for ‘fishing and fisheries beyond the territorial waters”.
June 14, 2021
Column | How Norway helped modernise Kerala’s fishing industry

Kerala owes a great deal of gratitude to the Norwegians for their generosity and for literally building a modern fishing industry from scratch.
March 21, 2021
Kollam diocese pastoral letter flays LDF govt over moves inimical to fishermen

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.
March 09, 2021
Ground report | Housing, kerosene subsidy & many unkept promises: Coastal discontent may trouble LDF

Fisherfolk in the southern part, around Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram,are facing an increasingly shrinking fishing space.
December 17, 2020
Tribute: A fishing village in Kerala mourns Italian nurse Lauretta Farina of Bergamo

Lauretta had played a key role in the creation of a model fishing village in Marianad in Thiruvananthapuram district in the 60s. She died at the age of 86 in a retirement home in Bergamo, the epicentre of novel coronavirus in Italy.
October 31, 2020
As fish availability falls, seafood processing units shift base from Kerala to Andhra

Many fishing days were lost over two years due to floods and continuous rains. The situation worsened due to the COVID-related restrictions.

Traditional Fishing Communities

Monsoon sea swells are gnawing at lives along Vadakara coast

Opinion | The Blue Lining – Indian Marine Fisheries Bill 2021

Column | How Norway helped modernise Kerala’s fishing industry

Kollam diocese pastoral letter flays LDF govt over moves inimical to fishermen

Ground report | Housing, kerosene subsidy & many unkept promises: Coastal discontent may trouble LDF

Tribute: A fishing village in Kerala mourns Italian nurse Lauretta Farina of Bergamo

As fish availability falls, seafood processing units shift base from Kerala to Andhra

How small fishers in Kerala's Poonthura benefited from COVID time auction system

Good news for Kottayam: Chemical-free, fresh fish to be available at your doorstep

Health alert! Fish that you eat may have plastic toxins