As the sea changes, fisherwomen in Tamil Nadu struggle to stay afloat
But it rarely feels that way for Kavitha, 40, selling fish under an unforgiving sun.By seven each morning, she has to arrange the day’s catch neatly on a small table at Chennai’s bustling Nochikuppam fish market, one of the city’s fishing hamlets tucked between the Marina Loop Road and the Bay of Bengal. Buyers drift in, bargain, leave, and return.“Between each sale, I keep an eye on the fish. As the mornings are getting hotter, I worry about selling everything before the sun spoils their freshness,” she says.
- ▪But it rarely feels that way for Kavitha, 40, selling fish under an unforgiving sun.By seven each morning, she has to arrange the day’s catch neatly on a small table at Chennai’s bustling Nochikuppam fish market, one of the city’s fishing h
- ▪Buyers drift in, bargain, leave, and return.“Between each sale, I keep an eye on the fish.
- ▪As the mornings are getting hotter, I worry about selling everything before the sun spoils their freshness,” she says.
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A minute is always 60 seconds. But it rarely feels that way for Kavitha, 40, selling fish under an unforgiving sun.By seven each morning, she has to arrange the day’s catch neatly on a small table at Chennai’s bustling Nochikuppam fish market, one of the city’s fishing hamlets tucked between the Marina Loop Road and the Bay of Bengal. Buyers drift in, bargain, leave, and return.“Between each sale, I keep an eye on the fish. As the mornings are getting hotter, I worry about selling everything before the sun spoils their freshness,” she says. Quicksand in Chennai’s Pallikaranai marshlandRising temperatures are not the only challenge fisherwomen face. Changes in the sea itself have made earning a livelihood far more difficult.
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