Ships returning from the sea with fish anchor in the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram city, and small country boats ferry the catch from the ships to the shore. The unloading goes on every day at the Karnaphuli ghat, and Prothom Alo photographer Jewel Shil recorded it in pictures.
The photographs show boats loaded with fish nosing into the ghat and workers carrying sacks of fish on their heads from the boats. They queue with the sacks to be weighed, the fish go on the scale, and each weight is written into a ledger.
After weighing, the sacks are stacked high in trucks. Some go into refrigerated vehicles and some into cold storage. From boat to ghat and ghat to truck, the whole journey runs on the workers' shoulders and heads.
Photo: Meerja / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Source: Prothom Alo
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