This is the situation at the mouth of the Aceh river. That is indeed its name, Krueng Aceh, which means the Aceh river. A river at the northern tip of Sumatra that flows from south to north. The river itself is a legend. On the right bank, since several years ago, there is a fish dock. It is among the largest in the region. Large fishing boats docked at the dock. They catch fish in the waters around Aceh such as the Aceh Bay, the Malacca Strait sea, but especially in the Indian Ocean waters. The main catch includes various types of tuna. The fish are stocked at the pier and then distributed to various places.
Since it is a fish dock, various other activities related to fishing are seen there, especially the manufacture or repair of fishing boats. It completely complements the entire coastal marine landscape related to marine and fishing.
Here, the imagination can wander to the high seas to imagine the huge boats roaming the blue sea surface in search of schools of fish and trawling them. A work sequence led by a Pawang, means the handler or captain. The handler is a person who has various marine expertise, especially in finding and marking potential marine locations for fish. Almost solely with this skill the rankings of the Pawangs(the Handlers) are determined, and the skilled among them will receive the greater attention of investors or boat owners. Usually, the Handlers are people who have the pure blood of the sailors of the past. The knowledge they have comes largely from the experiences they inherited from their predecessors and from their own experiences from childhood.
For the manufacture of boats and repair work, it is usually done by other people who have their own expertise in boat building, from the carpenter who designs and makes the boat body to the engineer. Uniquely, the people who make the boats are usually people who have never gone to sea and are not fishermen, but they understand all the ins and outs of boat building. For this short story, I have included some pictures that I took around the mouth of the Aceh river. Hopefully this information and images will be of fun.
Aceh river estuary.
One of the inhabitants of the Aceh river estuary habitat.
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