Life of a Fisherman

A fisherman is a person who catches and sells fishes from various sources to maintain his life. Generally, he lives in a village near a river or a sea. He is hard working and painstaking. He uses nets and boats in fishing. Some have nets but no boats. Some who have boats and nets, employ the ones who doesn’t and work in a group. A fisherman is always at work. While at home, he repairs [মেরামত] his boats or nets and paints his boats or dyes his nets. He catches fish in the seas, rivers, haors, beels and ponds. His women-folk make new nets; his children dry fishes in the sun and sell them in the market. The life of a fisherman is very risky and challenging because there may be storms [ঝড়] and cyclones [ঘূর্ণিঝড়] at any time. Some fishermen go to fish at night; some go to fish in the deep water or in the sea from home for many days. If he cannot earn a day, his family is to starve [অনাহারে থাকা]. He feels happy when he earns the needful amount. After all a fisherman does much good to us by supplying fishes. In spite of being hard working, he can hardly make both ends meet. Government should take some pragmatic [প্রয়োগিক] steps for the development of minimum standard of their livelihood [জীবিকা].