Faith . . .

Every year at NJH, everybody looks forward to the time of fishing. Our last season catch totaled almost 600 kilograms of fish. Last year the pond did not dry out for us to clean the place out. 

However, this year's drought ensured that the pond got dried out. Unfortunately, the drought also ensured that there was less rains. However, we've been hopeful. 

Once the water level was about a meter, we took a decision to put some fingerlings . . . We decided to adhere to the traditional choice of rohu, catla, mrigal, silver carp, common carp and grass carp. We learnt that pangasius (tengra) cannot be put along with these . . . 

We put a total of 11 kilograms of fingerlings . . . Snaps of the efforts . . .

The low water level . . . You can see the bags with the fingerlings inside them . . .

Few fish did not survive the journey from Daltonganj to NJH . . . 

Kindly pray for more rains so that these fish will not die off .. .. ..

Fishing at NJH

As is the tradition at NJH since quite a long time, we started the process of fishing from the hospital pond last week. Below are the snaps from the whole exercise. 

A golden carp

Casting the net . . .

An odd shaped face . . .

The booty being brought for distribution

130 kilograms of fish

The distribution going on in full swing

Every family received 1.5 kilograms of fish at a subsidized cost. And none was wasted. We wait for the next round of fishing next Saturday. 

The Aquarium

Outside the Trivandrum Zoo, is a small aquarium which has a decent collection of fish. 

Below are few snaps .. .. .. I could not get the names of most of them. 

Clown fish . . . trying to hide

Well, talking about aquariums, there is a very good aquarium in Vizhinjam. Unfortunately, they do not allow photography. A new building is coming up to house this aquarium.