Canoes on the river Hooghly

Canoes are mostly used by poor fishermen on the river Hooghly in West Bengal, India. The Hooghly river is a distributary of the River Ganges. None of these canoes is motored. Long oars are used to move the boat along.

This is a silhouette of a long canoe on the river Hooghly in Kolkata. Two men at each end of the boat can be seen with long oars. In the background are some buildings in Kolkatta, West  Bengal. These are fishermen.

Here are two boats on the shore of the river Hooghly.

A closer look makes you realise that people live on the boats for long periods.

A couple of men on the boat. The river water looks muddy and dirty. Thick with pollution.

More boats on the river Hooghly.

Related Pictures: For pictures of a cluster of fishing boats on the Goa coast: Indian fishing boats or trawlers
Two boatmen in a canoe in the ocean near Chennai, Tamil Nadu and a Chinese Man ferrying cycle in canoe or Howrah Bridge of Kolkata Photographs and Sketch or Vidyasagar Setu or the second Hoogly bridge or Ahmedabad and the river Sabarmati

Or The River Nile

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