Hemson, a fisherman and boat owner from Eraviputhanthurai in Kanyakumari district, had a close shave with a merchant vessel in the Arabian sea some years ago. “It was a moony night. We had anchored and were fishing for bait fish (small fish used for catching larger ones) when a dark monstrous...

After a fruitful life of 75 years and 50 years of service to the fishermen community, U Arulanandam of Alliance for the Release of Innocent Fishermen at Pamban in Rameswaram Island passed away on Sunday after suffering a cardiac arrest. Tamil fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan navy could be...

It is only the fishermen who have gone for fishing to the seas and their families living close to sea on the shores who are affected most in times of natural calamities like torrential rains, rough seas, strong winds, storms, tsunami etc. that normally occur during monsoon. These people usually...

State and central governments have acted to warn fishermen about heavy to very heavy rain forecast over the next five days. Most fishermen have returned due to these warnings but some 801 deep-sea going Kanyakumari fishermen remain at sea. There is no mechanism to provide them with latest...

An inspection of 6,031 km out of a total length of 7,517 km of the eastern and western coastal areas of our country in the course of the past 26 years has led to a grim discovery - as much as 33% of the coastal areas have been affected by erosion due to storms, cyclones, sea waves and human...

For F Palavendran, the recent collision of a fishing boat with a merchant ship off the coast of Kerala that led to the deaths of three Kanyakumari fishermen was all too familiar. “Four years ago, I survived one such collision,” says the fisherman from Manikudi. Palavendran lives in the same...

Three fishermen from Kanyakumari are among those who died when a merchant ship rammed into their fishing boat off the coast of Cochin. The fishing boat had gone from Cochin carrying 14 fishermen. On Tuesday early morning, some 14 nautical miles into the sea, the boat was anchored and the...

Nambu Rajkumar of Rameswaram had just bought a new boat. But, even before he could start repaying the loans he took for the boat, the Sri Lankan navy seized it. “In July 2016 our boat got captured. That was the only means of our livelihood. After it was seized, I came under terrible stress. I...

Not too long ago, the oil sardine was A Ilavarasu’s main catch. A country boat fisherman from Rameswaram, he says it is no longer the case although he recalls with optimism that three weeks ago his uncle netted a mini-bonanza of the fish, which he sold for Rs 5,000. Out of the more than 750...