India’s economy depends heavily on the fishing industry, which accounts for 1.07% of the country’s GDP. Over 28 million people in India depend on the fishing industry for their livelihood, particularly those belonging to disadvantaged and vulnerable communities. India is the third-largest fish producing nation. We produce 7.96% of the world’s fish. In the coastal areas of India, most people depend on fishing for their livelihood. Every day, hundreds of fishermen, across the coasts of the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal bring their boats into the sea and hunt for fish. The economy of the country depends to a major extent on these fishermen, but they face numerous challenges. One of the difficulties fishermen face is bringing their boats laden with fish to dry lands from the coast. It requires a humongous amount of strength to push these boats back to land. Fishermen in the coastal area of Kothapatnam in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh have devised a unique way to get past this problem. They have taken the help of tractors to pull their boats from the sea shore.
More than 500 boats are constantly fishing off the coast of Kothapatnam. Previously, pulling the boats required a great deal of work from the locals. The work of the fisherman has now gotten easier, according to local tractor drivers, since tractors arrived. The front portion of these tractors is fitted with large tyres while the rear wheels are smaller. This discrepancy is done so that the boats pulled by the rear part of the tractor do not suffer any damage.
Here, tractors are used to launch the boats into the water for fishing and to retrieve them to land by the end of a hunt. Every boat that is pushed to the shore is charged between one hundred and five hundred rupees, according to a local tractor driver.
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