An easy meal for birds at Chinese fishing nets in Ashtamudi
Ashtamudi Lake in Kerala offers one of the best backwaters experience that the South Indian state is so well known for. Part of a river with little or no current, the backwaters lie parallel to the Arabian Sea Coast – an environment conducive to fishing.
As in Cochin, the fishermen here use Chinese fishing nets to haul in their catch, rather than going out to sea in huge boats. While the big fish might elude them, prawns and smaller fish that do take the bait are enough to eke out a living. As an impartial observer, it seems like a more eco-friendly and less labor intensive way of fishing to me.