Washington’s Whim Shakes Up India’s Seafood Heartland
On a damp monsoon morning in Bhimavaram, the self-proclaimed “Prawn City of India,” the usual bustle inside the peeling sheds is missing. A handful of women sit hunched in freezing rooms, their fingers numb from hours of stripping shells off shrimp packed in melting ice. Outside, farmhands haul up nets from ponds in the Krishna and Godavari deltas. The catch is meagre. Where once the ponds spilled over with harvest, their wiry ropes cutting deep into men’s calloused palms, today, the nets rise half-empty.
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