Photos: Traditional shadow fishing in Kashmir’s Anchar Lake
By Muzamil Bhat| Published: 20th February 2021 7:06 pm IST
Srinagar: The traditional form of fishing in Kashmir known as “Tchaai Gaad” (Shadow Fishing) is a local technique of Kashmiri fisherman to catch fishes in the waters of Kashmir especially in Anchar Lake in the Soura area of Srinagar city.
“It is a technique where we hide under a thick blanket on the nook of a wooden boat, which helps us in creating a shadow on the part of the water and attracts fishes towards that shadow and later on catch them,” says Manzoor Ahmad who has been catching fishes on the Anchar Lake from last 10 years.