Fisherfolk launched an indefinite protest on Monday to express their outrage at the official laxity in resolving the issues related to those displaced from the Krishnapatnam port area. Leaders of the fishermen forums declared that they would not relent till all their demands were addressed by the government. To emphasis their sorry state of affairs, the fisherfolk also brought pots and vessels and started cooking food on the premises of the fisheries office in Nellore town.

The Coastal Corridor and SEZ Act would deprive the common man of his basic right to life, said the convenor of the Coastal Corridor Nirmana Vyatireka Porata Committee, Mr K.S. Chalam, and the state secretary of the Human Rights Forum, Mr V.S. Krishna. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, they said the 8-day Jagruti Jatha organised by both the organisations seeking scrapping of GO No. 34 and the SEZ Act, 2005, ended on Sunday.

The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), an organisation representing the fishermen community, has announced launching of a protest campaign on April 21 against the "excesses committed by the Defence Housing Authority to evict fishermen from their ancestral villages and deprive hundreds of them of their livelihood.' Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday, PFF general secretary Saeed Baloch and other leaders said that the DHA administration was forcing the fishermen's community to abandon the make-shift jetty in Gizri Creek.

Galle Chief Magistrate, Thamara Tennakoon fined Rs. 330,000 on three fishermen who were found guilty of fishing using dynamites. The three fishermen were K. Anil De Zoyza, M. Somaratne and D. Dharmasena. Each of them was fined Rs. 110,000. They were remanded after being arrested on January 14. The explosives and other items in their possession were confiscated. Bernard Withanachchi presented the report on the explosives on behalf of the Department of Explosives. Crime Division of the Southern Province Anti-crime unit prosecuted.

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a flat, 21 km strip of land in the middle of the Haldi river, three metres above sea level and accessible only by motorised boats, is the West Bengal government's alternative to Nandigram for a

The National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) protested against the Union ministry of environment and forests' draft coastal management notification on August 9. Hundreds of local fisherfolk, especially women, assembled in front of the government administrative building at Bandra in Mumbai shouting slogans against the government's move to handover "oceans to industry'. Such protests were organised in 12 places in Maharashtra and also several other coastal states in the country.