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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why the deportation of an English anthropologist has south Kerala’s fishing communities worried -KA Shaji

Why the deportation of an English anthropologist has south Kerala’s fishing communities worried -KA Shaji

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published Published on Apr 4, 2022   modified Modified on Apr 5, 2022

-Down to Earth

Filippo Osella was about to launch a precise early weather-warning system the fish workers badly need

Extreme weather events have made fishing a dangerous occupation along Kerala’s southern coast — at least one local fisherman dies every week, according to the state disaster management authority. 

An early weather-warning system would go a long way in saving the lives and livelihoods of the area’s fishing communities. And that’s what English researcher Filippo Osella was on his way to launch, till he was stopped from entering the state in the early hours March 24, 2022. 

Osella was visiting to attend a two-day conference to discuss the final stages of the weather forecasting mechanism in local coastal dialects — a mix of Malayalam and Tamil, said a meterological scientist from Thiruvananthapuram. 

His deportation without citing any reason sparked a global debate but also brought his contributions to the safety of Kerala’s fishing community in the limelight.

The anthropologist with the University of Sussex arrived in Kerala 40 years ago for his doctoral research on the social mobility of the state’s Ezhava community. Since then, he has initiated several projects to uplift the life of the rural people dependent on fishing. 

The latest was a system of generating accurate, timely and localised coastal weather forecasts, on which he is working with a diverse team of researchers. The mechanism is now in the implementation stage, with an online application ready to be rolled out, according to one of the scientists involved with the project. “An internet radio will disseminate the daily weather forecast in an easily digestible format,” they said.

There are more than 180,000 active traditional fishers in Kerala, of whom 50,000 live in the Thiruvananthapuram district, according to state government estimates.

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Down to Earth, 4 April, 2022, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/why-the-deportation-of-an-english-anthropologist-has-south-kerala-s-fishing-communities-worried-82200?utm_source=Mailer&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Down%20To%20Earth-5080


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