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Andhra Pradesh
Fishing boats back in action
By Our Staff Reporter
VISAKHAPATNAM,
JAN. 5.
Mechanised boats in Visakhapatnam revived their fishing operations on Wednesday - exactly 11 days after tsunami brought their activity to a standstill.
The first batch of six boats set out for the Orissa coast. "Tsunami has made us jobless. Now, we have to make some beginning,'' the Visakha Dolphin Boat Operators' Welfare Association general secretary, Ch. Satyanarayana Murthy, told The Hindu .
Fishing vessels, which sailed before tsunami hit the coast and returned with a good catch of miscellaneous fish during the last three days, are also getting ready to go on voyage again.
``Our only botheration is to allay the apprehension among the people that consumption of sea fish after tsunami is harmful to health. There is no logic in such thinking,'' he claimed.
Owing to dwindling catch and spiralling price of fuel, only 200 of the 600 fishing boats were under operation from here before tsunami battered coastal areas.
Several fishermen had stopped catching shrimp due to fall in their price in the export market and were concentrating on catching miscellaneous fish and converting trawlers into tuna long-liners.
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