Profile: Breaking boundaries: A 69-year-old Talaimannar fisherwoman breaks social boundaries

Neththasinha Courtesy, Daya (2017) Profile: Breaking boundaries: A 69-year-old Talaimannar fisherwoman breaks social boundaries. Yemaya (55). p. 3. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

Every morning Helan Jasitha Fernando gets up at 2 am and walks five kilometres from her home to her fishing hut. Dressed appropriately for fishing, she puts all her equipment into her canoe and uses her bamboo paddle to propel herself and her vessel around seven kilometres out to sea, off Talaimannar beach on the northern coast of Sri Lanka. There she joins the men who are already working, to catch prawn, shark, sardine and yellow fin tuna.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM473
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Personalities, Women, Ivory Coast, Equality, Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Fish Processing, Smoked Fish, Fish Catch, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 06:52
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2022 07:02
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/999

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