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Article: East Coast shrimp farms face trouble from both nature and protest groups. (India)(includes related article)
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- Quick Frozen Foods International
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- July 1, 1995
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Demonstrators in India want farms outlawed on environmental and economic grounds, even as cyclone and blight devastate recent crops. Legislature may act.
Both natural calamities - possibly aggravated by mismanagement - and a growing protest movement among farmers and fishermen are wreaking havoc with shrimp farms on India's East Coast, especially Andhra Pradesh.
Farmers and fishermen opposed to shrimp farms in the region have been holding a series of rallies to demand a ban on such farms, saying they harm the environment and cost them their jobs. They also want an end to foreign deep-sea fishing ventures.
An East Cost Anti-Shrimp Farm Movement was ...