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Mumbai’s Koli fishermen face a perfect storm: climate change, cyclones, and illegal fishing
Depleting fish stocks are pushing the city’s indigenous fishing community to economic precarity. 5 hours ago Fish worker Ranjit Kale sits at the edge of the creek in Versova Koliwada, his fishing village in Mumbai. | Photo: Ayush Prasad
On May 18, the morning after Cyclone Tauktae thundered through Mumbai, Janardhan Koli and other fishermen from Madh Koliwada trooped towards the shore to assess the damage to their boats. The cyclone was fiercer than any storm he had seen before, and Koli had braced himself for the worst.