It’s not just the size of the catch or the market demand that sets the price, sahib—here, our cooperative’s committee decides the base rate each morning after checking the ice stock and listening to the weather report for the next day. What my life adds is this: my own vote matters in that meeting, something my grandmother never had. So, when the trawler boats bring in a huge haul of sankara, the price doesn’t crash completely, because we protect our small-boat fishermen first. The real rate is written on the cooperative blackboard, but it’s decided by the stories shared over bitter kaapi at dawn.
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