Selorm midnyte detraveling fotografa writes: Our Fisher Folks Are Back

On my arrival at Windy Bay (Winneba)… i heard a group of people chanting war songs moving towards the bank of the sea with two huge and heavy metal rollers and four slabs on their shoulders.

Out of surprise I stopped to look at what they were doing. Then to the other far side too the local women with their head pans under their armpits. “Out fishermen are back” says one of the women.

For sometime now it’s been very difficult catching fish at sea, for that matter most of the fishermen come back with no fish or little fish, and that is what most people are lamenting over.

The fishermen came ashore and with the help of some of those people chanting war song, moved toward there directing with the metal roller and slabs. The fishermen in the canoe throws a rope to those on the land to help pull the canoe. 

The local people carried two big thick metal rollers on their shoulders as well as four huge slabs. 

They arranged the slabs just in front of the canoe at the bank of the sea.

Two in a roll and then the metal roller placed on the stabs to help facilitate the movement of the canoe ashore as they move behind the canoe whiles in the water to push with their back to move on the slab.

Then help it to climb the metal roller. Two of the slabs are then placed parallel to each other in front of the first two slabs, so it can climb onto the second one in that manner, for easy movement of the canoe to the land.

Finally the canoe is out of the sea. The fishermen brought out the net, only to realized that they had less catch of fish.


Writer:  Selorm midnyte detraveling fotografa