Dear William, Any pointers or details about the priest from whom the *rampon*'s name supposedly comes, as some say? Somewhere (an Italian) Ramponi is being mentioned, but this could be speculative. Others seem to be tracing its name to the Portuguese *rapão*. connected to "to scrape," "to shave," or "to sweep away." Btw, here's a video link showing a form of fishing which could be encountered on many beaches even till the 1970s and 1980s: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTSq2LUkuml/ FN
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Frederick Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا _/ AUDIO https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha _/ http://goa1556.in +91-9822122436 784 Saligao Goa _/ Goanet :: 30 years of discussions. [email protected] _/ http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 at 02:36, William Robert Da Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > The sea and fishing is gone so far beyond all you represent, that what > want to speak is pure 'history' in Goa. Is there a movement to > traditonalise fishing with ramponn? Do you know what ramponn is? He was a > catholic priest, Ramponn, who changed the traditional fishing with small > boats and rounded nets around the boat into, shore-based fishing, where you > pull up all the fish and leave them in the sea at the shore, so that people > could buy in bulk or individually, fish for their use. It was alive, > because ramponn kept it in water, not hauled up on shore as dead. It lived > and could be bought alive. No one seems to know this part of Goan Ramponn. > WR da S > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 9:59 AM William Robert Da Silva < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I had responded to you of my share in the work. To add, when I was in >> Bangalore at CSC Fathers and Brothers, St Mark's Road, I organized the >> youth with leadership from Devraj family to save traditional fishermen >> around North Kanara from Malpe Madhvaraj and others given to progressive >> mechanisation. John Devraj took the initiative and went about organising >> fishermen in Kanara, after Udupi and north. Later, they became a >> movement in Bangalore. I have lost contact with John, Sebastian etc. Devraj >> family and others. >> WRDS >> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 6:29 AM Frederick Noronha < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> When mechanised trawlers began displacing traditional fishing practices >>> along Goa's coastline in the late 1970s, the state's traditional fishing >>> communities—the Ramponkars—found themselves fighting not only for their >>> livelihoods but also for their way of life. This talk explores the history >>> of the Ramponkar Movement and the work of the Goenchea Ramponkarancho >>> Ekvott, which mobilised fishing communities through protests, petitions, >>> telegrams, press statements and sustained advocacy to defend Goa's coastal >>> heritage. Drawing on the Ramponkar archival collection housed at the Xavier >>> Centre of Historical Research (XCHR), which the presenter helped to >>> organise via an internship, the presentation examines crucial texts and >>> fragments of pages. This includes letters, memoranda, newspaper clippings, >>> petitions and organisational records assembled over decades by the late Fr. >>> Braz Faleiro SJ. These remarkable documents preserve the voices of ordinary >>> people who organised to protect Goa's coastline from the impact of >>> mechanised trawling and other vested interests, demonstrating how struggles >>> for environmental justice are also fought through documentation and public >>> memory. The presentation is by Siya Sukhtankar, a first-year Integrated >>> Programme in Management (IPM) student at the Indian Institute of Management >>> Shillong, who undertook a social internship at XCHR working on the >>> Ramponkar archives. The session was moderated by independent researcher >>> Tyrone Fernandes, whose work focuses on Goan cinema history and subaltern >>> studies. Fr. Braz Faleiro SJ (1936–2023), a Jesuit priest and social >>> activist, played a pivotal role in supporting Goa's traditional fishing >>> communities and meticulously preserving the documentary record of their >>> movement. Today, the Ramponkar Archives at XCHR stand as an important >>> collection documenting a landmark environmental and social justice movement >>> in Goa. For more such talks, please like, subscribe and share the video to >>> help preserve and promote awareness about Goa's rich social, environmental >>> and archival history too. Visit the XCHR library. Audio recorded by >>> Frederick Noronha (FN). WhatsApp : +91-9822122436. >>> >>> https://youtu.be/x7FdqYOkZyI >>> >>> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ >>> _/ Frederick Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا >>> _/ AUDIO https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha >>> _/ http://goa1556.in +91-9822122436 784 Saligao Goa >>> _/ Goanet :: 30 years of discussions. 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