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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is interesting that the European Parliament website says, "With over 70% of the world’s fish species already fully exploited or depleted, fisheries faces a crisis." [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/033-39948-350-12-51-904-20081020STO39947-2008-15-12-2008/default_en.htm] Wasn't it the Europeans, Norwegians in particular if one recalls right, who pushed for the mechanization and trawlerization of India (and Goa's) fishing sector a generation ago? Even when traditional fishermen in Goa complained that they were being pushed out of the sector? Here's another view by Janet Ahner Rubinoff of York University: Fishing for status: Impact of development on goa's fisherwomen [http://janetrubinoff-fishing.notlong.com] OPENQUOTE An ignored but significant group in the local economy, female vendors of the traditional Kharvi fishing community in Goa, India have, in many ways, benefited from recent fisheries development. Their success in the markets has reinforced more egalitarian gender relations within fishing households, as well as affecting their class mobility and caste status in Goan society. Rather than being “victims” of technological development that has focused on fishermen, many Goan Catholic fisherwomen, in contrast to their Hindu counterparts, have made an economically successful transition from “barefoot, headload peddlers” in the villages to market entrepreneurs, working in small cooperative groups. The more complementary and egalitarian gender relations of fishing groups represent a reversal of the dominant patriarchal norms of Indian society. Ironically, the effects of economic success, education for the younger generation, and the withdrawal of Kharvi daughters from marketing activities may alter their economic and domestic independence and undermine more egalitarian gender relations in the future. CLOSEQUOTE
