Mangaluru, May 17: Visitors at the Fish Carnival at Pilikula flocked to stalls selling seafood while others were engrossed in the pursuit of angling at the boating lake in the park on Sunday.
With over 150 persons registered for angling at the one-day Fish Carnival jointly organised by Karnataka Fisheries Development Corporation (KFDC) and Fisheries College, Mangaluru at Pilikula Boating Lake on the outskirts of the city on Sunday, several left the carnival with fresh catch caught in the lake.
One of the anglers Abdul Razzaq said that he used shrimps as bait to catch the three fish he caught in the lake.
Another angler Shafi from B C Road said that he used earthworms on the angle and landed three catla fish on Sunday. He told Coastaldigest.com that angling was one of his favorite past time. He said that he used a bigger mechanised fishing rod to land fish weighing over 5-6 kgs while angling in the estuary near Ullal.
Another attraction at the carnival was the auctioning of freshwater fish such as catla and rohu. The big fish caught by the anglers was auctioned off to the visitors with 50 percent of the proceeds going to the anglers while the rest was given to KFDC.
Most of the families and seafood enthusiasts flocked towards the seafood snacks counter where they had the choice of opting from a variety of snacks such as prawns tawa fry, fish fingers, fish kabab, fish tawa fry, crab meat nuggets and other delicacies prepared in traditional style.
The park was packed with visitors throughout the day with angling being a great hit as a recreational sport. Prabhakar Sharma, executive director of Pilikula Nisargadhama said that the main intention was to promote angling as a sport among locals.
Earlier in the day, Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim inaugurated the fish carnival and said that the district administration would consider making the carnival an annual event if it was met with good response.
Rakesh Kanchan, a visitor to the carnival, said that the event could have been better organised to make space for several anglers at a time. It seemed there were not much fish available at the edge of the lake for anglers to catch, he opined, adding that not all anglers were equipped with proper angling rods.
The stall put up by KFDC was another crowd puller with seafood such as tiger prawns, mud crabs, lobsters, large seer fish, pink perch, butter fish, white pomfret, mackerel and others kept on display for sale to customers.
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