Comment/Editorial: Redeeming small-scale fishers: Greater visibility and recognition of inland fisheries could redeem small-scale fishers and fishworkers from being amongst the most impoverished class of community

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (2016) Comment/Editorial: Redeeming small-scale fishers: Greater visibility and recognition of inland fisheries could redeem small-scale fishers and fishworkers from being amongst the most impoverished class of community. Samudra Report (74). p. 3. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

Nearly 150 years ago, Francis Day, the colonial Inspector General of fisheries in British India, wrote in his famous Report of the Fresh Water Fish and Fisheries of India and Burma that freshwater fishermen were amongst the most impoverished class of community, and were, as a result, seeking employment outside the subsector as railway and agriculture labourers and as petty traders.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0990
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Small-scale Fisheries, Fishing Communities, Inland Fisheries, Fish Production, Land, Pollution, Comment/Editorial
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2021 07:06
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2022 15:03
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1554

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