Kerala fishers demand rescue service overhaul after marine ambulance breakdown

Fishermen face increased risk of death or injury during emergencies at sea due to absence of functional rescue services.

Along the fishing harbour of Beypore in Kozhikode, a six-crore-rupee marine ambulance sits idle, its promise of safety dissolved into mechanical failure and institutional silence. Since January 2021, the Karunya was meant to answer the sea's oldest cruelty — that distance from shore can become distance from survival — yet by April 2026, no backup had been arranged in its absence. The fishermen who depend on these waters have now marched to the Fisheries department not in anger at ambition, but in grief at its abandonment: they were promised a safety net, and found instead a single thread that

Kerala fishers demand rescue service overhaul after marine ambulance breakdown

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