Thangamma, about 80 years old, gathers seaweed off Pananthoppu beach, Pamban island, Tamil Nadu, India.Seaweed extracts are used in a booming global food industry.An estimated 5,000 women gather seaweed in the shallow reefs around Pamban island, which they sell to local factories.Anushree Bhatter for NPR Early on a warm February morning, a group of ten women, ranging in age from 50 to 60, sit on the sandy shores of Akkal Madam beach on India's Pamban Island, carefully bandaging their fingers.
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