Chinese Fishing Nets,Kochi, India ,2002
These cantilevered nets are fixed land installations with an outstretched net suspended over the sea and large stones suspended from ropes at the other end. It is an ingenious system of counterweights operated by a team of up to six fishermen. Some say these nets were introduced to Kochi (formerly Cochin) by court traders of Kubai Khan. Others suggest it was the Chinese eunuch admiral, Zheng He.