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Fishing festivals, about 17 Aug 2027

Narali Purnima

The Koli fisherfolk of the Konkan coast offer coconuts to the sea at the Shravan full moon, as the fishing season reopens.

Narali Purnima, the coconut full moon, falls on the full moon of Shravan, the same day as Raksha Bandhan. Along the coasts of Maharashtra and Goa, Koli fishing communities carry decorated coconuts to the shore and offer them to the sea to ask for a safe and plentiful season. It comes as the monsoon storms ease and boats return to sea after the June and July fishing ban. In Mumbai the festival is marked in the old Koli villages of Worli, Versova and Sassoon Dock. The 2027 date is taken from the full moon.

Still to be written: Bombay duck, Pampus argenteus, Indian mackerel, Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel.

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