Fishermen prepare to head out into the Bay of Bengal on their small motor-powered sailboats from Pudimadaka, Andhra Pradesh, India. A nearby textile park has laid out a pipeline deep into the sea here, directly discharging untreated effluents that forced fish populations to move away from the shore. The fishermen now have head to farther into the sea, and the catches are dwindling. The younger ones are joining the same textile park, migrating to work on boats in distant Paradip, Malpe and Veraval, or joining the workforce in Visakhapatnam.
Chinese fishing nets are believed to have been introduced in Kochi, Kerala, around six hundred years ago. High maintenance costs and diminishing catches are slowly pushing them out of service.
A fishermen sorts checks his net before heading out into the Bay of Bengal on a small motor-powered sailboat in Pudimadaka, Andhra Pradesh.
Fishermen return to the landing point on the beach after a fishing expedition at Pudimadaka, Andhra Pradesh.
Vinothan, 15, goes hunting for squid on his makeshift boat fashioned out of polystyrene in Pamban, Rameshwaram Island, Tamil Nadu.
Fishsellers wait at the landing point on the beach in Pudimadaka, Andhra Pradesh, for fishermen who headed out to sea in the morning to return with the day’s catch.
Workers sort catch from boats in the morning at Malpe, Karnataka.
Bangda (Indian Mackerel) being dried at a yard in Malpe, Karnataka.
Women sell dried fish at the harbour in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
Fresh catch headed to inland cities at Malpe, Karnataka.
A purse seine net on the beach at Mangamaripeta, Andhra Pradesh.
A busy morning at the fishing harbour in Malpe, Karnataka.
A workers separates catch from a net at Malpe, Karnataka.
A floating stage set up by fishermen on their boat during the annual São João festival in Siolim, Goa.
Fishermen pull boats anchored in the sea into a creek in Mangamaripeta, Andhra Pradesh, as a cyclone warning was issued in the Bay of Bengal and the sea turned rough.
A fisherman’s foot is seen through the nets he mends in the afternoon after returning from a morning fishing trip in Pudimadaka, Andhra Pradesh.
Houses and road damaged by sea waves crashing at them during Cyclone Hudhud Bheemunipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Trees uprooted by Cyclone Gaja in Vizhinthamavadi, Tamil Nadu.
A fishing boat moored during low tide close to the Haji Ali shrine in Mumbai, 2018. The sea here has since been reclaimed for the Mumbai Coastal Road Project.
Bombay Duck (Bombil) being dried by the indigenous Koli fishers at Versova in Mumbai. There is a proposal to reclaim land from the sea here to build a much bigger fishing jetty.
Bombay Duck (Bombil) being dried by the indigenous Koli fishers at Versova in Mumbai. There is a proposal to reclaim land from the sea here to build a much bigger fishing jetty.