Bottom trawling is a net that scrapes the sea floor clean, while our *vattavali* traditional nets are selective. The violence is because the trawlers are killing the future for our small boats. But the real conflict is not between fishermen; it is between those who can afford a steel boat and those of us watching from the shore. My father still mends his net every evening, but for me, there are no fish and no wages—just the sight of those big boats leaving us with only empty water.
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