Restricted Entry: Shrimp farms in the south indian state of tamil nadu have proliferated despite a 1996 supreme court judgement to regulate coastal aquaculture

Arunkumar, A.S. and Menon, Ajit and Nithya, K. and Shakila, H. (2022) Restricted Entry: Shrimp farms in the south indian state of tamil nadu have proliferated despite a 1996 supreme court judgement to regulate coastal aquaculture. Samudra Report (88). pp. 43-46.

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Abstract

Given an option, I would move away from this village to nearby Chidambaram town because, year after year, the fertility of my agricultural land declines.” This was told to us by a lamenting farmer concerned about the expansion of shrimp farms in Pichavaram, a village situated near the backwaters and mangroves of Cuddalore district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In the neighbouring fishing village of Thandavarayancholaganpettai (T.S. Pettai), a fisher echoed a similar sentiment when he complained about the menial jobs he undertook in the Middle East for 15 years because, as he put it, “shrimp farms had polluted the adjacent Uppanar river and the fish resources within it.”

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM1322
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, India, Tamil Nadu, Shrimp, Farmers, Coastal Aquaculture, Brackishwater Aquaculture, Aquaculture, Shrimp Aquaculture, Exports, FAO, Impact, Environmental Impact, Pollution, Salinization, Land Degradation, Water Pollution, Pichavaram, Mangroves, CAA
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Bharti Vijaya
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2023 08:03
Last Modified:	06 Mar 2023 08:03
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/19645

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