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Getting fishermen off the hook : an exploratory PRA in southern India.
This article reports on a workshop attended by men and women involved in different fishing trades to investigate and analyse their occupational problems and means of ameliorating them. Some of the tools used in the workshop and their results are described, including, listing of the trades in which fishers are involved and ranking of these according to the severity of problems and risks faced by each, seasonality analysis of activities and problems of the various trades and focus group discussions with fisherwomen.