Odisha Matsyajibi Forum (OMF) organized a women fish workers meeting at Kharnasai Village of Kendrapara district in Odisha on 20 July 2017. Around 100 fisher women were present from near by villages called Kharnasai, Sanadubi, Baradubi etc. in the meeting . And Shri. Narayan Halder & Shri. Chittaranjan Barik from OMF, two other men from Kharnasai Village, Smt. Manasi Bera, Shri Milan Das and Shri Soumen Roy from West Bengal were also present in the meeting. The issues which were discussed in the meeting were as follows: 1. The restriction imposed on fishing in The Nona river and adjacent forest by Forest Department. 2. The transformation of patta land into forest land by Govt. of Odisha. 3. Forest Department’s intention in putting crocodiles in river. 4. Penetration of wild pigs into villages. 5. The viability of Forest Department’s alternative livelihood Scheme against fishing. 6. Unavailability of Savings cum Relief Scheme . 7. Liquor. 8. Organization. After the lively, meaningful and participial discussions among women participants the following decisions were taken: 1. The fisher women will not obey any retraction on fishing in forest area as it is the question of their livelihood. 2. The fisher women will not leave their patta land which were transformed into forest land without any informed consent from them. And they will fight for justice. 3. The fisher women will tell the forest department to stop putting crocodiles in river which are attacking women while fishing day to day. Otherwise they will kill crocodiles. And forest department will be responsible for that. The participants guess that Forest Department has ill-intention in putting crocodiles in river which might be declared as crocodile sanctuary in the long run and cause the complete destruction of their livelihood like other parts of coastal Odisha. 4. The fisher women will request Forest Department to make net fencing around the forest (not river) to stop . penetration of wild pigs into villages which causes destruction of food crops and great loss of farmers every year. 5. The meeting decides that as per their last few years experiences the Forest Department’s Scheme of alternative livelihood by providing goats ducks chickens , production of Agarbatti etc. is unreal and economically unviable. This can not be alternative for fishing. So they need to right to fish in forest area, not alternative livelihood. 6. The meeting observes that small fishers are poor, but not entitled as BPL because of politics. Because of BPL criteria fishers are not getting Savings cum Relief Scheme in ban on fishing period and fishers pass through very hard days in near starvation. Therefore govt. should cut BPL criteria from that of scheme. 7. The meeting agrees that the Liquor is destroying family lives of fishing community and creating families poor to poorer. If govt. takes necessary action poverty will reduce automatically. 8. To fight their problems a committee comprising 15 fisher women was formed at the end