Catholics ask Indian state to scrap fishing project
Permitting overseas firms to join deep-sea fishing will further impoverish Kerala s traditional fishermen, they say UCA News reporter Updated: February 26, 2021 08:45 AM GMT
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Traditional fishing boats are parked in the Catholic-dominated Vadi coast of Kollam during the Covid-19 lockdown in September 2020. (Photo: Christopher Joseph)
Catholic leaders are among those opposing a multimillion-dollar overseas deep-sea fishing project in Kerala that they say threatens the livelihood of ordinary fisher people in the southern Indian coastal state.
Following criticism from opposition leaders and rights groups, the communist-led state government withdrew two memoranda of understanding it signed with a US-based firm that allegedly violated the state’s fishing policy and the rights of poor fisher people.
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