Mass Fishing @ Bapatla Beach

Suryalanka(Bapatla beach) is one of the most popular, playful, harmless and best beaches of Andhra Pradesh. The tourists from different places flock the beach especially on weekends. Haritha Resort has been built on the shore of the beach to cater to the needs of the beach lovers and tourists. Because of its flatness and harmlessness, most of the tourists can enter the salty water for about twenty feet long and play with the rising and falling tides. Water scooter ride intrigues the sea lovers on the Beach.

Besides the tourism, the beach is the lifeblood for fishermen of nearby villages. Generally, in India, the hungry fishermen go fishing on wooden boats into the sea and do the fishing with the help of white colored nets. Due to the widespread of awareness and  development of accessible technology, fishermen in India have started innovative techniques to catch more fish in less time and manpower, and one such innovative is Mass Fishing. Mass Fishing is usually employed on the foreign oceans; that too, on the ships with large bag like net which is immersed into the middle of the sea and fish are scooped up with the help of that large balloon like net and some electronic equipment.

Now, here at Bapatla it is completely different, fishermen don’t got into the long distances but spread the longest and widest net into the sea of U shaped with the two ends are on  either sides, pushing the middle part of the net deep into the sea. About two hundred fishermen on each side pull the net which has been spread into the sea like we clean mucous on the tongue with the help of tongue cleaner with both the hands on either side of it. Spreading and drawing the humongous net and collecting fish require plethora of fishermen, tractors to carry after the fish had been accumulated. The tractors carry the fish up to a certain distance of two kilometers. Then, when they reach the main road, the large containers would be waiting for the fish to be transported to the nearest towns and cities. A gigantic common balance would weigh the just-died fish and loaded into the containers to be transported to the nearest markets of towns and cities.

The fishing would start at dawn and end at dusk, with gales of laughter, happiness, money and satisfaction to the contractors and fishermen. Even the tourists would enjoy the stellar spectacle of catching the umpteen live fish which become the dead in the blinking of an eye. On the other hand, the fish would feel extremely desolate and miserable by being caught in the inescapable net by the cruel human and they lose their lives as soon as they are out of their mother water.

The sadness of fish is the happiness of man.

The death of the fish is the survival of man.

 Killing the fish for filling the stomach.

Women's choice and Men's competiton

In the past, men and women had uncompromising beliefs about women. Women were dedicated to household work and confined to the four walls of the house. In the name of convention or tradition or culture, women were restricted to the limits of the house.  Men in India had suppressed women to such a lower and degrading condition and now their uprising had become inevitably unacceptable to the domineering men and highly acceptable to the meek men.

The scenario in this present generation is quite reverse because, women can go out, study, do jobs, earn money and make decisions. Women can be often seen unfettered during the day, night or sometimes at midnight as well. They are unabashed and stepping their feet in almost every field with flying colors and outperforming men. Occasionally, some educated and reliable women feel fettered by their parental control and care, feel that they lack freedom. Soon after their graduation, the women are asked to get married by request or force. To run away from these marriage trials and to have more freedom, some women prefer to embark on job hunt in cities, away from their villages and parents.

Staying in the hostels either for job search or for some course has brought women unlimited freedom to do whatever they wish. As they have become adults, few women feel that their parents are illiberal and clipping their wings. Hence, they choose to come to the nearby city and stay in hostels in the name of job search. Beloved search becomes faster than the job search in Ameerpet. Competition is always at the peak for the gorgeous women. An average beauty would also get a minimum of four men following. Whether a mentally mature female or an immature one, a female would be extremely egoistic, calculative, foresighted, shrewd and innocent (sometimes credulous) in choosing the male partner.  The choice is based on many parameters such as height, weight, color, background, caste, income, attitude, importance, money, bike, reliability, security etcetera.

 On the other hand, men have severe competition among themselves in search of a girl. An unflinching and uninterrupted follower who should be wise, rich, humorous and persuasive have more chances of getting the female partner.

Men have competition whereas women have choice in terms of choosing a partner.

A female choose carefully for her beloved with full of independence, because at the time of marriage these many parameters are unconsidered and impossible. She always loves according to her heart’s wish and gets married a person according to the parents’ wish/choice.  For that, she has many reasons. She is very careful and meticulous in all the det
ails when it comes to relationship with the opposite gender before marriage. She knows that the marriage is not in her hands it is undoubtedly in the hands of the parents and she always feels that parents would choose the best option for her. Many a time, it is successful and some other times it becomes failure but living together with the husband is inevitable for her until she loses all her patience and interest. And these days losing patience is very common, easy and early. After marriage, if a woman loses patience which means she may lose her husband or life or more than that or nothing at all.

A Male wants a female companion for physical comfort and she wants a male being for mental companion. For this relationship, both male and female has given the name called love. Both of them intends to use each other for their selfish gains but in the end, the one who is more involved in love would definitely suffer like hell. 

Depression is the first stage and suicide is the next stage in suffering, if the person has weak heart. Otherwise life would go on as he or she starts moving on in life with the reminiscences of love.

Hardly five percent out of hundred cases of love would lead to the marriage that too if the girl is defiant and dauntless.