Sometimes one question opens up a whole world.
I'll scream:
If I hear or read one more report that describes a village as completely bereft because "their livelihood was fishing - and now they have no boats" . . .
If I hear one more appeal to buy people boats because "their sole livelihood was fishing - and now they have no hope" . . .
If I endure one more paean to the nobility and harshness and difficulty of having to gather one's livelihood from the sea . . .
What will I scream?
"What do the women do?"
Man does not live by fish alone. Somewhere in their diet is a vegetable and a starch. And, more than likely, it is women who are responsible for putting them - and the fish for that matter - on the table.
The seaside communities across the Indian Ocean were devastated and many of them need assistance, but there remain capacities for survival and recovery that were not washed away with the fishing fleets.
What do the women do? Just ask them.
Posted by Martial