Empty boats, loaded trucks: Rapid changes in fish marketing in a small village in Kerala, India, highlight complex market dynamics and throw up difficult questions

Nayak, Nalini (2014) Empty boats, loaded trucks: Rapid changes in fish marketing in a small village in Kerala, India, highlight complex market dynamics and throw up difficult questions. Yemaya (47). pp. 9-11. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

A few days ago I visited the fishing village of Pallam in the southern coast of Trivandrum, India. This is a densely populated fi shing area. Women fish vendors in the SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association) Union had told me that they were facing harassment from the fish agents and were being badly abused. They also said that in some areas, these agents had been banned because they bring in bad fish. Initially I was confused because I did not understand why agents in Pallam were bringing in fish. On enquiring, they told me, ‘Oh, you have not come to the shore for long and that is why you do not see the hundreds of trucks that come in every morning with fish from all over the country.”

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM396
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, India, Kerala, Fish Marketing, Trade, Transportation, Wages, Auction, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 12:20
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2022 10:28
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/813

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