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Traditional fishing festival

Traditional fishing festival
by Azim Khan Ronnie


Fishing festival is one of the old traditional festival in Bangladesh. Hundreds of villagers, fishermen take part in this festival spontaneously with a bamboo made fishing tools, in knee-deep water forgetting their woes of the summer and cheering with their mates when they trap fishes with their trap. Fish festival usually takes place in late winter as the water of the low land area began to dry up and the farmlands aren't prepared yet to harvest