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*Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Subsidy offered for constn, purchase of Deep
Sea Fishing Vessels*
http://echoofindia.com/port-blair-subsidy-offered-constn-purchase-deep-sea-fishing-vessels-55588

The Department of Fisheries, A&N Administration has invited applications
from Individuals/ Self Help Groups/ Joint Liability Groups/ Co-op.
Societies/ Co-op. Federation/ Partnership Firms/ Private Limited Companies
from A&N Islands for availing the subsidy for construction/purchase of new
Deep Sea Fishing Vessels under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) during
2014-15...

*Uttar Pradesh: Thousands of fish found dead*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/Thousands-of-fish-found-dead/articleshow/34815948.cms

Thousands of fish were found dead in a pond at Bhademau village of
Sandalpur block in Jhinjhak police area in Kanpur Dehat district under
suspicious circumstances in the past two days. The district administration,
in the year 2011, had leased out the pond to one Mewa Lal of Bhademau
village for fish farming for a period of 10 years...

*Gujarat: Heat fries Kankaria fish*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Ahmedabad/Heat-fries-Kankaria-fish/articleshow/34795829.cms

The heatwave condition prevailing in the city is not only affecting humans
but also taking toll on fish in Kankaria lake. On Wednesday, hundreds of
fish were found dead in the lake. Those fish which were in the shallow
water and near the bank could not tolerate the heat and died...

 *Gujarat: IFC Won't Support Expansion of Disastrous Tata Mundra Project*
http://theenergycollective.com/guayjguay/375951/ifc-wont-support-expansion-disastrous-tata-mundra-project

The World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and the bank's International
Finance Corporation (IFC) are at a crossroads -- they can either choose to
to be on the right side of human rights and the environment, or they can
continue ignoring the facts...

*Goa:  Authorities inspect CRZ Violation GTDC site at Vagator*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Authorities-inspect-GTDC-site-at-Vagator/articleshow/34749573.cms

 The Anjuna sarpanch, panchayat members and tourism department officials on
Tuesday inspected the property leased by the Goa tourism development
corporation (GTDC) at Vagator and observed coastal regulation zone (CRZ)
violations. The panchayat body stated that prima facie CRZ violations have
been carried out at the property and the panchayat will prepare its report
and send it to the authorities concerned...

*Karnataka: Jetty expansion makes Bestha community edgy*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/jetty-expansion-makes-bestha-community-edgy/article5981043.ece

The nomads , who pitched tent on Gurupura banks, make a living by fishing.
For the seven families belonging to the nomadic Bestha community, the Rs.
100-crore project to expand the fishing jetty at Bunder is less than
exciting news. Its progress could mean their displacement from the banks of
the Gurupura where they have pitched tarpaulin tents...

*Kerala: Trawl ban norms issued to Collectors*
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/trawl-ban-norms-issued-to-collectors/article5990655.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

Ban to be enforced from June 15 to July 31. The State government has
commenced its preparations for the over-month-long annual trawl ban and
issued guidelines to District Collectors of coastal districts to seek the
help of the Navy and Coast Guard to effectively implement the embargo and
conduct sea rescue operations...

*Tamil Nadu: Exclusive ‘mariculture zones’ in Gulf of Mannar mooted*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/exclusive-mariculture-zones-in-gulf-of-mannar-mooted/article5991528.ece

Scientist in-charge of Mandapam Regional Centre of the Central Marine
Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) G. Gopakumar has suggested that Gulf
of Mannar National Park should demarcate exclusive ‘mariculture zones’ in
the Gulf of Mannar region for sea cage fish farming...

*Tamil Nadu: Fishing, a costly affair for country boat fishermen*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/fishing-a-costly-affair-for-country-boat-fishermen/article5977281.ece

Sometimes a catch will be just enough to meet expenditure. Thirty
eight-year-old S.A. Nathan had set out for fishing with his colleagues in a
Vallam (country boat) on Tuesday morning and returned after four days of
fishing on the high seas to earn a meagre Rs.1,300...

*Andhra Pradesh: Fishermen say no to inducements, durai*
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/fishermen-say-no-to-inducements-durai/article5981095.ece

The residents of the fishermen villages of Kaikalur Assembly constituency
have said a strict no to the money and other freebies offered by the
candidates this election, apart from thedurai (diktat) system which was
quite in use to influence voters. They vow to vote for the candidate who
will develop the lake-bed villages...

*Odisha: Odisha Emerges Fish Surplus State*
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/Odisha-Emerges-Fish-Surplus-State/2014/05/03/article2203440.ece

With fresh water resources of 6.75 lakh hectares and brackish water
resources of 4.18 lakh hectares, Odisha has emerged as fish surplus State
by exporting about 1.6 lakh tonnes of fish per annum. The overall fishery
potential is 5.14 lakh tonnes against which the total fish production
during 2012-13 was 4.10 lakh tonnes...

*West Bengal: Tiger kills fisherwoman*
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/tiger-kills-woman-114050601404_1.html

when she went for fishing in the Kardaha canal at Tirkhali jungle of
Sajnekhali of South 24 Parganas district today, forest department officials
said. Kalpana Mondal (45), a resident of Rajat Jubilee village, was
attacked by a tiger when she along with two others went for fishing in the
Kardaha canal this morning, they said...

*India: JIC to Step up Vigil in Territorial Waters*
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/JIC-to-Step-Up-Vigil-in-Territorial-Waters/2014/05/07/article2210393.ece

In a major effort to step up the vigil on territorial waters, the state
government has constituted a Joint Interrogation Committee (JIC) at
district-level to submit findings and recommendations to the state Home
Department about foreign fishing vessels and crews entering the territorial
waters without necessary documents...

*India: UN chief discusses Marines issue during visit to Italy*
http://www.firstpost.com/india/un-chief-discusses-marines-issue-during-visit-to-italy-1514303.html

The issue of the two Italian marines currently awaiting trial in India over
the killing of two Indian fishermen came up during Ban Ki-Moon's meetings
with Italian officials in Rome, a spokesperson for the UN Chief said here.
"The issue (of the Italian marines) came up during the Secretary-General's
meetings with Italian officials," in Rome yesterday, Vannina Maestracci,
the Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, told PTI...

*India: Fishermen from India and Sri Lanka to dialogue*
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2658811&Itemid=1

Representatives of associations of fishermen in Sri Lanka and India will
meet next Monday in this capital to try to settle an old conflict of
interest due to maritime boundaries in the area where they work. The
Director General of Fisheries of Sri Lanka, Nimal Hettiarachchi, today
confirmed that India will take 26 representatives, while Sri Lanka will
have 20 delegates, in both cases accompanied by officials of the respective
governments as observers...

*Bangladesh: Fishermen defy ban on shrimp fry catch in Chittagong*
http://www.thedailystar.net/business/fishermen-defy-ban-on-shrimp-fry-catch-in-ctg-22723

Defying a government ban, hundwreds of fishermen catch wild shrimp fries in
the coastal areas of Chittagong in a mindless act that kills fries of other
fish species as well. The Department of Fisheries in a survey found that 75
to 100 fries of other species get killed in attempts to catch every shrimp
fry, said Kamal Uddin Chowdhury, Chittagong district fisheries officer...

*Bangladesh: Fishermen suffer as rivers run dry*
http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2014/may/03/fishermen-suffer-rivers-run-dry

Fishermen have mostly become unemployed. Thousands of fishermen and
Irri-Boro farmers are struggling as all 20 small and big-sized rivers
flowing through the district which they heavily rely on, have dried up...

*Maldives: Sainsbury’s launches sustainable sandwich*
http://www.worldfishing.net/news101/industry-news/sainsburys-launches-sustainable-sandwich

Sainsbury’s is the UK’s first retailer to launch a Marine Stewardship
Council certified sustainable tuna sandwich. With a range of MSC certified
pole and line caught sandwiches and salads launching this month, it follows
the retailer’s introduction of MSC certified canned skipjack tuna sourced
from the Maldives in 2013...

Pakistan: No constitutional cover to protect wildlife species in EEZ
Pakistan
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/sindh/04-May-2014/no-constitutional-cover-to-protect-wildlife-species-in-eez-pakistan

In the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Pakistan there is no constitutional
cover to protect the wildlife species. Talking to Daily Times Muhammad
Moazzam Khan Technical adviser (Marine Fisheries) of World Wildlife Fund
(WWF-Pakistan) pointed out protection of EEZ and protection of marine life
was federal subject. EEZ starts from 12 nautical miles from the seashore
and it stretches to 200 nautical miles...

*Fr. Thomas Kocherry passed away*
Source: NFF

Our Beloved Leader NFF Former chairperson, KSMTF Leader, WFF founder
convener, Special  Invitee of WFFP, Fr. THOMAS Kocherry passed away today
this morning around 8 AM at his place of stay, at Holy Cross Church,
Trivandrum. Thomas Kocherry was born in Changanasserry, Kerala, the
south-west part of India on 10th May 1940. He is 74 yrs old. He is fifth in
a family of 11 children-7 boys and 4 girls.


​
 Father Thomas Kocherry after his ordination as a priest in 1971, he went
to work among the Bangladesh refugees in Raigunj, a border area of
Bangaladesh in 1971.
 Father Thomas Kochery is a social activist, priest, and lawyer who helped
found the Kerala Swantra Matsyathozhillali Federation.
For the past few  years he lived in Redemptorists House at Manavalakurichi
of Kanniakumari District in Tamilnadu.

 Because of sickness for the past one year he lived in the convent of Holy
Cross Church, at Muttada, near M.G. College, TRIVANDRAUM.
Burial will be held on Monday 5th May at 3.00 PM at Holy Cross Church, Near
M.G.College, TRIVANDRAUM.

Fr. Thomas Kocherry, Catholic Priest, Trade union leader, environmentalist,
lawyer, social activist is the former chairperson of the National Fish
Workers Forum. He is the Co-ordinator of the world Forum of fish-harvester
and Fishworkers (WFF) and Indian National Alliance of Peoples’ Movements
(NAMP).

 He is also the Rector of the Periyavillai Redemptorist Community of
Tamilnadu. One of the organizers of the famous Kanyakumari march of 1989
that sought to protect India’s coastal ecology, he and his colleagues have
mobilized the fishing community to fight the foreign industrial fishing
fleets that had been invited to India by shortsighted politicians. A
crusader against coastal pollution, he spearheaded protests against the
Koodankulam Nuclear Plant in Tamil Nadu and is currently a member of the
Coastal Zone Management Authority of India.

He became a priest, He worked with the refugees from Bangladesh in Raigunj.
The stories of despair and destitution that He heard changed him forever.
His decision to spend his life defending the oppressed was further
consolidated when He began to work in a small fishing village called
Poothura near Thiruvananthapuram. Middlemen led by one politically
well-connected family were using muscle-power to keep fisherfolk
permanently on the edge of starvation even though they worked harder than
any community He decided to arm them with knowledge by teaching them to
read and write.

 The 74-year-old legend of social movement politics in India shows no signs
of slowing down, Redemptorist priest, union leader, anti-nuclear activist
and people’s movement educator – Tom Kocherry is a senior sage of India’s
environmental and social justice movements. Despite scars from many
battles, he remains an inveterate optimist – ‘Every fight, every movement,
every reform is an optimism,’ he says.

You just can’t stop Thomas Kocherry. After four heart attacks, innumerable
fasts and 16 stints in jail, he shows no sign of slowing down. His current
target is the controversial Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu. The
campaign has mobilized local villagers and activists from across the
country who fear that, like Fukushima in Japan, the plant may be vulnerable
to a tsunami. The movement has fought tooth and nail since construction
started in 1989. ‘You cannot talk about social justice without talking
about the environment,’ says Kocherry. ‘There can be no shortcuts, no
depleting of natural capital.’ This in part explains his anti-nuclear
stance. When not campaigning, he travels South India putting on seminars
for young activists.

 The fifth of eleven children, Kocherry grew up in the Backwaters region of
Kerala, where poor fisher folk used small boats to eke a living from the
fresh waters that parallel the Indian Ocean. The two influences on his
early adult life were the church (particularly the social gospel of the
Redemptorist Fathers) and the radical Left movement that contested Keralan
politics (led by the Communist Party of India) from the first days of
independence. It was natural enough for Kocherry to make common cause with
the poor inshore fisher folk and their struggles. He and three other
Redemptorists made their living as part of the Shore Seine fishery, and
helped organize health clinics and nurseries amongst the hard-working but
desperately poor fishers systematically exploited by a series of
wholesalers and merchants.
In the late 1970s, Kerala fishers started to organize and assert their
rights on a whole range of issues. They set up an organization called the
Kerala Independent Fishworkers Federation... In 1981 Kocherry and fellow
leader Joyachan Antony went on an 11-day fast in favour of a Monsoon Trawl
Ban (the breeding season for many varieties of fish) in Kerala. Kocherry
was arrested on trumped-up charges; in the course of defending himself he
managed to fit in a law degree at Kerala University.

By 1982 the fishworkers’ struggle had gone national, with Kocherry elected
president of the National Fishworkers Forum. In the mid-1990s he led a
nationwide campaign to stop the Indian government from opening up the
country’s fishing industry to a growing fleet of 2,600 large foreign
trawlers. With 10 million Indians dependent on a sustainable fishery for
their survival, the stakes were high. A militant campaign included marches,
fasts and blocking of major fish ports around the country. The Indian
government was forced to withdraw the legislation – one of the first and
most significant victories against corporate globalization. Kocherry, who
went on to help form the World Forum of Fisher People, understands the
tensions of fighting for the rights of the fishing community in an era of
declining global fish stocks. ‘You simply cut from the top. The biggest,
most destructive, trawlers go first and you work your way down until you
reach a sustainable fishery.’

Kocherry has thought a lot about people’s movements – how they succeed and
fail. These days, he is highly critical both of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) and the established Christian church. ‘They become
institutionalized, create dogmas and rituals and statues of their gods,
they become powermongering or give in to the power of money.’ For Kocherry,
the strength of a people’s movement lies elsewhere. ‘It must be from the
bottom up. The challenge is to create an evolving revolutionary structure
that never becomes institutionalized or ossified by power.’ It is a vision
that would strike a chord with today’s Occupy Movements and their search
for new organizational forms.

With the demise of Fr. Thomas Kocherry, India lost one of his greatest sons
of this country. We have lost a legend of social movement politics in
India. We have lost an anti-nuclear activist and people movement educator.
As the chairperson I am shocked by my beloved leaders’ demise. It was
sudden and unexpected. I met him only three days back at Manavalakurichi,
Tamilnadu, on 30 the April I was with him for about 3 hours and enjoyed his
hospitality. He shared his experience with me.
 NFF  conveys its deep condolence to the entire fishing community in India
and all over the world and his family members.
I convey my heartfelt condolences to one and all.

M.Ilango Ex. M.L.A.
Chairperson , National Fishworkers' Forum

DMF's Tribute to Father Thomas Kochery
Source: DMF West Bengal

Father Thomass Kochery is no more. Ex-Chairperson of National Fish Workers'
Forum, Founder of World Forum of Fisher Peoples, Founder of National
Alliance of People's Movements, an indefatigable fighter against
oppression, exploitation and tyranny - Thomas Kochery has been the living
spirit of peoples' struggles.
He led the coastal fishing communities of India to achieve recognition to
their occupational dignity.
Dakshinbanga Matsyajibi Forum and its members solemnly remember his immense
contributions to the struggles against fishers' eviction from Jambudwip and
nuclear power plant at Haripur.
We vow to carry out his behest.

A tribute to Thomas Kocherry
Source: Naseegh Jaffer , WFFP

It is with the greatest sadness that we hear about the passing of Thomas
Kocherry.
It was just yesterday that he joined the coordinating committee of the
World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) in a lively telephonic conference
discussion on issues that faces small scale fishers across the world. Today
he is no more and all of us in the WFFP are shocked and mourn the loss of a
pioneer of our organization. His passing is an intimate loss for
fisher-folk across the world.

Thomas was a hardened soldier in the fight for the rights of fishers and
poor people. His very existence echoed the plight of the poor. He was never
a person to indulge in luxury. Whenever the WFFP met internationally he was
always in the front line of not wasting. All his international work
reflected the life of the poor. We in the WFFP can attest to this and we
value this personal attribute that he instilled in our organization.
As tough as a person he was, he also stood tall in the fight against the
exploitation of marginalized people. Even though he will be modest about it
– we know that he has made an indelible impact in the fight for a better
life for fishers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Canada and all over the
world.

For us, in the WFFP, the legacy of Thomas Kocherry will continue to stand
tall. While we mourn his passing – we also celebrate the great contribution
that he made in the struggle for human rights the world over. His absence
will surely be missed.

Naseegh Jaffer & Sherry Pictou
Co-Chairpersons of WFFP.
2nd May 2014

*Pakistani fishermen mourn the death of world fishermen leader Father Tom*
*Source:  Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF)*
*http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-247928-Pakistani-fishermen-mourn-Father-Toms-death
<http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-247928-Pakistani-fishermen-mourn-Father-Toms-death>*

*Thomas Kocherry dead*
*http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/thomas-kocherry-%20dead/article5974995.ece
<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/thomas-kocherry-%20dead/article5974995.ece>*

*What Is The Main Issue Of Modi, BJP And NDA During The 2014 Lok Sabha
Election- Development or Majority Communalism? By Thomas Kocherry*
*http://www.countercurrents.org/kocherry030514.htm
<http://www.countercurrents.org/kocherry030514.htm>*

*A crusader who shored up battle for fishworkers’ rights*
*http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/a-crusader-who-shored-up-battle-for-fishworkers-rights/article5977566.ece
<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/a-crusader-who-shored-up-battle-for-fishworkers-rights/article5977566.ece>*






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