Thomas Kocherry, the leader of the new fisher organization, India, Kerala, late 1970s (The Times of India Group)
By the time the Indo-Norwegian project was concluded in 1972, it had contributed to transforming the Indian fisheries. In many harbour towns along the coast, fleets of trawlers had come about, and they were causing serious trouble to the large small-scale fishing population that remained. Many conflicts took place between the two groups of fishers.