India's women seaweed divers swim against the tide of climate change: via TRF_Stories
RAMANATHAPURAM, India, March 30 - In a blue plastic barrel, Meenakshi Mookupori packed her belongings for a five-day stay on an island in the Indian Ocean, off the Coromandal coast of south India.
"Those days, the seaweed collection was huge. We would bring back bags full. Now the quantity has reduced. The number of days we harvest the seaweed has also reduced. The sea has changed and we also had to." The shallow bay with a 365-kilometre coastline is known for its coral reefs and is home to endangered species such as dugongs, a marine mammal related to the manatee.
"It was like they were declared thieves in their own backyard," said Venugopal, the programme head for the non-profit International Collective in Support of Fishworkers Trust. "But if we don't camp on the island, we are unable to collect enough seaweed to sell," she said, rolling up her sari and slipping into leggings and socks held up by rubber bands.
"We feel the changes. The waters are rougher and we have to spend longer hours underwater to fill our bags. We are also travelling farther from the coast then we did earlier," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. For now, to deal with the changing conditions and protect their seaweed beds, the women have cut the numbers of days they harvest and discarded the metal scrapers they once used, now gathering the seaweed with their hands instead.
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