NEMMELI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shankar Tilakvathy, 45, has lived all her life by the sea. Sorting, drying and selling fish is the only livelihood she has ever known.
But the mother of three from Nemmeli – a coastal village in southern India's Kanchipuram district – doesn't want any of her sons to take up fishing.
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