Subsidised fish: All eyes on Filipe Neri

GUILHERME ALMEIDA | SEPTEMBER 19, 2020, 12:11 AM IST
Subsidised fish: All eyes on Filipe Neri

A new fishing season, but the same old question has come to haunt Fisheries Minister Filipe Neribab Rodrigues:  when will fish-loving Goans expect to get cheap and subsidized fish this season? Niz Goemkars had posed this question to Neribab during the last season, more so during the lockdown when they were left with no option but to buy fish in kilograms. Successive governments have only promised to subsidize the common varieties of fish, the staple food of Goemkars. Will Filipe Neribab and his team walk the talk? Only time tell.


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