Theodore and his crew worked to rescue men from the stricken boats, but 22 vessels sank and 35 men were drowned.

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Many of the men on Spanish boats now come from Africa or Latin America, and most of the subsidies go to big industrial-fishing combines, not self-employed fishermen.

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At Poovar Beach, which is located a mile or two from Hawa, lights from hundreds of boats blink on the horizon at dawn, while men hike up their lunghis (garments similar to sarongs) to sit and wait for the work to come in.

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The early British planters could not find workers locally so labour contractors collected not just men, but women and children too, from distant parts of India and sent them on boats up the Brahmaputra river which flows through Assam.

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