Advocacy and lobbying is necessary to break the pattern of public inertia in critical areas affecting deep sea fishermen such as fishing rights, hostility from migrating villages, and degradation of the marine environment. Advocacy is required to claim rights. Advocacy can help to amplify the voice of the poor and enable the marginalized to speak for them.

Press meet at Trivandrum against destructive fishing methods by foreign fishing vessels. Mr. Lourdayyan, Secretary, ADSGAF, Mr. Ephrem, Chief Executive, SIFFS, T. Peter, President, KSMTF and Mr. Encilome, President, ADSGAF
Personalities address a agitation.