₹72,325 Crore. India’s Blue Economy Breaks Its Own Record. But Are the Fishermen Winning?
The Catch That Built An Empire Long before the Marine Products Export Development Authority issued its provisional data release on April 21, 2026, Lakshmi Raju had already spent the night at sea. She is a shrimp sorter at a processing unit in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, the heartland of India’s frozen shrimp export industry. She works…