Click to play videoMumbai: As the crisis related to the oil spill off Mumbai coast becomes bigger, it's business as usual in the metropolis. Even as mangroves turn black due to the oil slick and toxic chemical bottles get washed ashore, at the Mumbai docks fish continues to be brought in and hundreds of fishermen continue to go out to sea.
Over 31 containers with hazardous chemicals are still missing and need to be found. Debris can still be seen floating in the waters. The water around the damaged MSC Chitra is clear but that is because the ship is in deep sea and the debris is getting washed ashore.
But the fishermen claim there is no need to panic. They are worried people will stop eating fish, affecting their business in turn.
"There is no connection between the oil spill and fish. All this talk is rubbish," says a fisherman.
But experts claim the impact on the fish will only be felt several months later.
"You may not be seeing its real impact now. But you will be seeing it in December when actually spawns will come out. Then we will come to know the amount of mortality," says Deepak Apte, assistant director, Bombay Natural History Society.
Despite the warnings of the state government and Environment Ministry for the fisherman of Mumbai it is business as usual. They insist there is nothing wrong. For them it is just another day.
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