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Eleven of the Chinese fishing nets remain, down from around twenty, a local councillor said in 2025.
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Chinese fishing nets / Vasco da Gama Square
Huge cantilevered nets, lowered and hauled by hand, worked by small teams.
110 m from the Water Metro jetty
More about Chinese fishing nets / Vasco da Gama Square
3- Did you knowOf the eleven surviving nets, three have been fully rebuilt in fresh timber, six run on iron bars, and two survive only as coconut-log pillars.
- Did you knowIn November 2025 a wooden platform at Vasco da Gama Square gave way and seven people, including women, fell into the backwaters; fishermen pulled them out.
- Did you knowEach Chinese fishing net structure in Kochi is at least 10 metres high, with a cantilever that holds a net over the sea and stones on ropes as counterweights.