Locals fishing Eskimo-style in Turkey’s Ağrı

Locals fishing Eskimo-style in Turkey’s Ağrı

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Villagers in the eastern province of Ağrı are making a living fishing like Eskimos until the end of March, when the weather warms up in the high-altitude ice-covered Fish Lake. (AA Photo)
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In the region, where the weather started to warm up, the snow in the mountains melted after the rain, but the ice on the lake surface has not been thawed yet.
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The ice layer covering the lake has reached a depth of 60 centimeters due to the severe weather conditions. However, it has lured many ice fishers in the region every winter.
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Those coming to the lake, which is 30 kilometers away from Taşlıçay district and whose surface is covered with ice, usually five-six months of the year with the effect of freezing colds, are fishing by breaking the ice.
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Citizens who reach the lake after a walk in the early hours of the morning catch fish by breaking the ice with iron bars and throwing a fishing rod in the lake.
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Both professional fishers and amateurs are highly interested in fishing for carp — dubbed “yellow fish” by locals — using the Eskimo method for fishing.
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The villagers made their challenging work enjoyable while they were fishing, cooking potatoes on the embers and drinking Turkish tea.
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Özcan Çekim, who made his living with fishing, said that the surface of the lake is still covered with ice, although they were in March.
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“We’ve been fishing on ice for four months. Snow melted everywhere, flowers bloomed, but the ice in our lake has not been thawed yet,” Çekim said.
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