Maharashtra is famous for its varied fresh water resources, including lakes, tanks and rivers. A number of fishing communities have developed in response to these favorable factors. These communities can be divided into:
- Specialists or indigenous groups who depend completely on fish and other aquatic resources for their subsistence
- Subsistence fishers or opportunists who depend partly on fish, and
- Groups who have recently started fishing.
Famous quotes containing the words fishing and/or communities:
“Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)