Fishermen in the Supply Chain: Challenges Faced from a Decent Work Perspective

Meenakshi Rajeev () and Supriya Bhandarkar ()
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Meenakshi Rajeev: Institute for Social and Economic Change
Supriya Bhandarkar: Institute for Social and Economic Change

Chapter 7 in Unravelling Supply Chain Networks of Fisheries in India, 2022, pp 87-97 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There are millions of fishermen and their families in the southern, eastern, and western coasts of the country who are living a hand-to-mouth existence (Sawaikar in The fishermen (protection and welfare) bill, 2017). Our primary survey revealed that it is the fishermen who get the least value share of the rupee, while the middlemen, retailers, and wholesalers take a large part of the pie, indicating that downstream actors reaped a higher proportion of the product value. To supplement our findings from the primary survey, we are fortunate to get some data from the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) which we collated for further analysis. In this chapter, we provide an analysis to show clearly the working conditions of the fishermen and how the percentage of income they earn from the fisheries sector is not adequate to keep them above the poverty line. Since this data is at the all-India level, incorporating several states, the results provide a macro-picture (Some parts of the findings in this chapter are presented from Rajeev and Nagendran in Decency of Primary Occupations in the Indian Fishing Industry, ICDD Working Paper No. 21, Kassel University Press, 2018). The analysis is done using the decent work framework of the ILO.

Keywords: Fishermen; Value share; Decent work; Poverty; Social security; Trade union; Stability of work; Gender disparity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7603-1_7

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