By late April, when the annual marine fishing ban came into effect, the men at a ghat, or jetty, on the Karnaphuli river had little to do. About 30 of them sat through the afternoon among 60 docked boats; a few wandered off to shop for groceries.The lull held until someone mentioned industrial trawlers.“We all come to the sea to earn a living and feed our families, the sea belongs to everyone,” said fisherman Ayub Nabi, a fisherman, his anger pl…
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