Although the embassy did not disclose the payment amounts, Dubai media reported they would match payments from Tamil Nadu, the fishermen's home state in southern India.
The Tamil Nadu government said last month that it would pay 500,000 rupees ($9,100) to the family of the fisherman who was killed. The injured were to receive 50,000 rupees ($910).
The details of the payment were worked out by the U.S. in consultation with the Tamil Nadu government, India's External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said in New Delhi.
Newspapers in Dubai reported that the wounded fishermen were not happy with the assistance.
Pandu Sanathan told the Khaleej Times that he would like to see the Indian government push for payments similar to those offered families of two Indian fishermen shot dead by Italian marines who mistook them for pirates earlier this year. Italy has agreed to pay nearly $200,000 to each of the families in that shooting.
How magnanimous and benevolent
