Fishing workers speak out against the destruction of their livelihoods 
By Ajanta Silva LK Source: wsws 7/26/2022
Ajanta Silva
Credit: WSWS
Kapparathota is a fishing area with a harbour situated 143 kilometres from Colombo, in the Matara district of Sri Lanka’s Southern Province. Like other fishing villages and harbours across the country, the Kapparathota fishing industry is paralysed by the fuel shortages created by the country’s unprecedented economic crisis
 

Fishing is the major income of many living in coastal towns and villages. But the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands, including fishermen using small boats and workers on larger trawlers, have been wiped out as they have no fuel to go to sea.

 
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