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Fisheries
No man's land
Posted on 18 Jan, 2017 09:39 PMFrom its rather benign origins connoting a type of land classification, the term poromboke has transformed into something grotesque over the years. This term had been in use since the Cholas denoting stretches of land reserved for shared communal use which cannot be bought or sold.
![The Ennore creek choked by fly ash. (Screen grab from the Chennai poromboke paadal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/poromboke2.png?itok=KbRRvrpb)
State of rivers goes south
Posted on 14 Jan, 2017 05:40 PMAt a time when the government’s attention is steered towards the concerns of the northern rivers like the Ganga and the Yamuna, it is seldom that the polluted rivers of the south India come up for discussion.
![Water-borne litter in Salem, Tamil Nadu. (Source: Parvathisri, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/water-borne_litter_in_salem_tamil_nadu_india-parvathisri-wikimedia-commons_0.jpg?itok=Y5QZTdyg)
Curious case of disappearing fish
Posted on 07 Jan, 2017 09:41 PMJaman Ram, a resident of Bhikia Sain, a tehsil in Uttarakhand, remembers fishing with his father in the Ramganga. “We could catch 80-100 kilograms of fish a day. That is no longer possible,” he says. Shafiq of Haldwani shares an unsettling memory of the Ramganga. As a young man on a holiday, he was paddling in the river near Marchula when the rock he was standing on shifted.
![Mahseer swim in the bracing waters of the Ganga in Uttarakhand.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mahseer_cover.jpg?itok=nP3lGpGC)
Changing coast affects livelihood
Posted on 07 Jan, 2017 07:05 AMGoing by the statistics from the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Tamil Nadu’s coastline is densely populated with 573 fishing villages along 13 coastal districts. The story is slightly different around the urban and peri-urban coastline, thanks to the ongoing gentrification of the coastline in most parts of urban India.
![Chennai coast on a busy day.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/32005696281_54bd33c028_z_1.jpg?itok=abpN0Mke)
The sea mouths crisis
Posted on 06 Jan, 2017 11:21 PMLingaraj Jena is a worried man. At 86, he is one of the older fishermen in Berhampura village, an island on the Chilika lake in Odisha. Though he no longer goes for fishing due to old age, he is worried about the opening of new sea mouths; he knows it is not good news for the fishing communities he is a part of that depend on the Chilika for their livelihood.
![A view of the Chilika in the evening.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/30347858053_a6bb48c3f4_o.jpg?itok=6KFn0RE8)
Hyderabad water bodies unfit for even irrigation
Posted on 25 Dec, 2016 07:19 PMMost of Hyderabad water bodies reduced to cesspools
![Himayat Sagar lake in Hyderabad (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/himayat_sagar_lake_with_common_coots_in_hyderabad_w_img_8638.jpg?itok=NmK10jCB)
Saving the Ganga, one step at a time
Posted on 21 Dec, 2016 09:11 AMAn aerospace engineer from IIT, Kharagpur, Siddharth Agarwal could have been drawing a fancy salary like any other 25-year-old if he hadn’t followed his passion.
![Siddharth Agarwal (Photo credit-Siddharth Agarwal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/12916694_10153341192037373_5456143043051880350_o.jpg?itok=05KgJG4m)
Soon a single tribunal for all inter-state river disputes
Posted on 19 Dec, 2016 12:45 PMGovernment decides to create a permanent tribunal for all inter-state river disputes
![Cauvery river in Karnataka (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2330822341_1b4aa606c2_z_0.jpg?itok=PiFSngzn)
Remembering Amma’s generosity
Posted on 07 Dec, 2016 06:12 AMOne of Tamil Nadu’s most populist leaders and a big inspiration to women across the state and beyond, J. Jayalalithaa has left an indelible mark on the people as well as the politics of the state. Though detractors objected to the ‘Amma’ prefix in most of her schemes, the people of Tamil Nadu did not seem to mind, given that many of their basic needs stood satisfied to a great extent.
![Amma rose to popularity with her many welfare schemes for the poor.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/amma-kudineer.jpg?itok=xnoD9L-y)
At home, in the wetland
Posted on 10 Nov, 2016 10:01 PMLong necked, rosy white birds with heavy pink bills stand etched across the horizon. These are the flamingos that fly miles from across Iran’s Caspian Sea and the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, to reach the inland waters of Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu.
![Flamingoes fly miles to reach Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/30746689341_70fe975bb3_z.jpg?itok=qf-42Vhk)