Celebrating fisheries day

Nayak, Nalini (1999) Celebrating fisheries day. Yemaya (1). p. 7. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

The celebrations for the World Fisheries Day were launched in July with an all-India campaign to include women in the Famine-cum-Relief scheme of the government. This is a participatory welfare scheme whereby fishermen contribute a certain sum of money for nine months a year and then get it back in the three poor fishing months, with an equivalent amount contributed by the State (provincial) and Central governments. In 1996, women fishworkers were barred from this scheme on the grounds that this was a scheme only for ‘seagoing’ fishermen. The National Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF) decided to take up this issue as a national struggle, and launched a sit-in protest in all State capitals on 1 July.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM005
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, India, World Fisheries Day, Women, Welfare Scheme, National Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF), Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 12:44
Last Modified:	22 Jul 2022 10:21
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/87

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