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Fishing festivals, about 14 to 15 Jan 2027

Magh Bihu and Uruka community fishing

The Assamese harvest festival, when villages fish their wetlands together on Uruka, the eve of Bhogali Bihu.

Magh Bihu, also called Bhogali Bihu, marks the end of the harvest in Assam in mid-January. On Uruka, the day before, people build bonfire huts called meji and prepare a night feast, and in many villages the men fish the local beels, the floodplain lakes of the Brahmaputra valley, together with bamboo traps and nets. The catch of carps, snakeheads and catfishes is shared for the feast. In 2027 Uruka falls on 14 January and Magh Bihu on 15 January; some almanacs differ by a day.

Fish tied to Magh Bihu and Uruka community fishing

RohuA carp of the Brahmaputra beels

Still to be written: Channa striata, Walking catfish, Clown featherback.

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