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Assessing the Socioeconomic profile of a vulnerable coastal fishing village in India

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Title Assessing the Socioeconomic profile of a vulnerable coastal fishing village in India
 
Creator Shyam, S Salim
Rahman, M Ramees
Safeena, P K
 
Subject Socio Economics and Extension
Fishing Villages
 
Description Fisheries sector attained immense importance around the globe with augmenting income and
employment generation. Indian fisheries sector provide dependency for over 14.5 million
people across the country with Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala, being the top three marine
fish producing states of the country. Even possessing the highest literacy rate in the country,
the irony exists that the fishers of Kerala are marginalized far way behind with comparatively
higher level of literacy rate and educational attainment which limits them with minimal
alternative livelihood options.This study is an attempt to examine the socio-economic profile
of the fishing community in the Poonthura fishing village of the Thiruvananthapuram district
of Kerala, where fishing is the most important economic activity. Among the 222 fishing
villages of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram has the maximum number of marine fishing villages
(19 per cent) where in fishermen reside. Poonthura village is one of the major fishing villages
from the South West hotspot regions of India, situated in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram
district, the capital of Kerala. The study analyzed various socioeconomic aspects such as
thefishing activity, basic household data, economic as well as historic and cultural
dependence on fishing, gender equity, employment and occupational structure, community
infrastructure, income distribution and assets, physical capital, financial capital, social
capital, and exposure of the fishermen families by taking 500 samples from the study area.
Even though the village is having a century old fishery culture and a strong emotional
attachment to the fishing job, people are not ready to direct their young generation into this
sector which indicates the higher level of vulnerability prevailing in the sector. The study as
the first of its kind conducted at one of the most vulnerable marine hotspot of Kerala and
which explains the problems, prospects of the inhabitants in the sector has its own relevance
as a basis to develop proper adaptation mitigation strategies for the fisher folks
 
Date 2017
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11575/1/Shyam%20Salim_Asian%20Academic%20Research%20Journal%20of%20Multidisciplinary_2017_Poonthura.pdf
Shyam, S Salim and Rahman, M Ramees and Safeena, P K (2017) Assessing the Socioeconomic profile of a vulnerable coastal fishing village in India. Asian Academic Research Journal of Multidisciplinary, 4 (2). pp. 98-127. ISSN 2319 - 2801