FisherCoast

Workshop in Pondicherry, India

The FisherCoast project arranged its second workshop in Pondicherry in the days February 11-15, 2020 in Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, India.

The project focuses on coastal transformation and how it is occurring globally, with special reference to India and a number of coastal states in Europe. The objective is to see how government laws and investment policies have reshaped the social ecology of the coast and the fishing communities, and also how these changes have affected the fisher’s wellbeing.

From the MARA research group, Keshav Prasad Paudel, Tara Lawrence and Bjørn-Petter Finstad participated in the workshop.

Bjørn Petter Finstad presenting war destructions in Northern Norway after the Second World War. Photo: Bjørn Petter Finstad

Keshav Prasad Paudel presenting a report on work package 1 in the project: Mapping of coastal transformation in Troms and Finnmark, Norway.  Photo: Bjørn Petter Finstad

Keshav Prasad Paudel. Photo: Bjørn Petter Finstad

PhD candidate Tara Nicole Lawrence presenting her thesis: Coastal Transformations – A Trawl Fisheries Perspective

The FisherCoast workshop poster. Photo: Bjørn Petter Finstad

Fishing vessels in Pondicherry, India. Photo: Bjørn Petter Finstad