The fishworkers of Mumbai carry out subsistence and livelihood activity on a narrow strip of land and water which constitutes the coast. Coastal infrastructure projects in the foreshore and near shore areas of this region pose a threat to the customary rights and traditional occupations of the fisherfolk, as well as to coastal ecosystems.
Shweta Wagh is an architect and urban conservationist, Associate Professor at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA) and a PhD researcher at IIT Bombay. She is a founder member of the Collective for Spatial Alternatives (Web: https://csainquiry.wordpress.com/ <https://csainquiry.wordpress.com/>), a planning, research and advocacy collective based in Mumbai. Her research is focussed on coastal policy, fish workers struggles, coastal communities and livelihoods in Mumbai.