It is a pleasure to see fishing boats in the US and Canada steer far out into the sea, well out of the prohibited ranges and then begin their work.
They wouldn’t have done this if they had no discipline and respect for the law. Coast guard patrol boats are few and enforcement on these vast coastlines is difficult. These fishermen are pretty much on their own and yet they see the need for the law, recognizing that their own sustenance is dependent on it. But here are Goan fishermen throwing any hint of responsibility to the wind even when such a minor limit of no fishing within 500m from the shoreline is in place. Why this complete lack of respect for the law? Decades and the total pervasiveness of bribery and corruption from top to bottom is rampant and few care for the law even when it is for their own good. See the examples of helmets and seatbelts. ‘We are surviving’ the Goans will say, but at what level one can ask. At the current level of road accidents, suicides, Panjim it’s crown jewel carrying the rank of 90th among already dirty cities of India. Who could tell after the Portuguese left that the race of Goans once so insistent on hygiene, etiquette, consideration, respect for the law and so ethical and religiously upright would lose their bearing and moral compass becoming infinitely worse than their new role models who helped them get their ‘independence’. http://bharatmukti.blogspot.com/2018/08/time-for-goa-university-to-defend-fish.html?m=1
