The nets are "pulling nets" which are pulled from te beach by up to 40 men. This is a big change from the standard fishing method used by Udaya and the village, which is line fishing from small boats. There are a maximum of 4 boats that can fish, so that's a potential step up from 8 men to 40 each day during the season. Usually, if large pulling nets are used, they are rented from commercial net owners, who take a sizable percentage of the profits from the catch. Our proposal is that after buying the nets, a proportion of the profits from the catch are used for purposes dictated by the charity. We'll see how this gets on when the season starts in November.
In the meantime, here is Udaya sitting proudly with the new nets:
In Trinco, we had a chance to see how successful the nets could be. The sight of so many men pulling the nets can be quite dramatic:
and they can catch some pretty sizable fish. Check out this stingray. They caught 6 of them in one catch from the beach.
and you can see just how heavy this guy was in this video clip. It takes three men just to pull it accross the beach:
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