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[[File:Royapuram Fishing Harbour.jpg|thumb|Royapuram Fishing Harbour]]

'''Royapuram fishing harbour''', also known as '''Chennai fishing harbour''' or '''Kasimedu fishing harbour''', is one of the major fishing grounds for catching [[fishes]] and [[crustaceans]] located at Kasimedu in the [[Royapuram]] area of [[Chennai]], [[India]]. The harbour is located north of the [[Chennai Port]] and is under the administrative control of the Chennai Port Trust. The harbour is also a shipbuilding facility, chiefly building fishing boats. The nearest railway station is the [[Royapuram Railway Station]].

The harbour can accommodate 575 fishing boats, and by 2013 the number of boats has gone up to 1,395.<ref name="NIE_HarbourToGetRs75CrMakeover"/>

==History==
The harbour area is primarily a fisherman community area migrated from [[Chepauk]] village in 1799 during the rule of the [[English East India Company|East India Company]]. The harbour was constructed in 1975.<ref name="ObservingOurEnviron">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJfu5vbPbA0C&q=Chennai+World's+second+largest+beach&pg=PA81|title=Observing our environment from space: new solutions for a new millennium ...|author=EARSeL|year=2002|isbn=90-5809-254-2|publisher=A. A. Balakema|access-date = 23 Oct 2011}}</ref> The fishing harbour is functioning from 1984. It suffered an extensive damage during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.<ref name="NIE_HarbourToGetRs75CrMakeover"/>

==The harbour and the market==
The breakwater inside the harbour leads up to 300 m into the sea. The draft alongside the [[wharf]] is 2 m. The harbour has a capacity to handle about 575 fishing craft but over 1,395 boats use the space.<ref name="BL_SportFishingBoatingInChetputLake"/> Over 600 45-ft boats (each operated by 11 people), 200 30-ft boats (each operated by 4 people) and 300 fibre boats with outboard motors (each operated by 3 to 4 people), in addition to hundreds of [[catamarans]], use the harbour.<ref name="SalvageWorkBegins">{{cite news
| title = Salvage work begins at fishing harbour
| newspaper = Business Line
| location = Chennai
| publisher = The Hindu
| date = 3 January 2005
| url = http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/2005/01/03/stories/2005010301601300.htm
| access-date = 26 Oct 2011}}</ref>

Nearly 30,000 people visit the auction hall situated near the harbour every day. Of the daily sales amounting to 200 tonnes, nearly 30 per cent is sent to other States such as [[Karnataka]] and [[Kerala]] and the remaining is provided for local markets.<ref name="HarbourRenovation"/>

A retail fish market known as the Kasimedu fishing harbour market with 90 stalls is located within the Chennai fishing harbour complex adjacent to the auction shed of the fishing harbour and behind the Office of the Fishing Harbour Management Committee. The market sells a variety of fishes including [[Seer fish|seer]], [[pomfret]], [[prawn]], [[shark]], [[sardine]], [[crab]], [[silverbellies]], [[Carangidae|carangids]] and [[mackerel]].<ref>{{cite web
| title = Kasimedu Fishing Harbour
| url = http://www.bobpigo.org/fishmarket/xml/chennaimarket.xml
| format = xml
| access-date = 26 Oct 2011
| archive-date = 15 March 2012
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120315182953/http://www.bobpigo.org/fishmarket/xml/chennaimarket.xml
| url-status = dead
}}</ref>

==Expenditure==
As of 2018, there are an estimated 1,000 mechanised boats at the fishing harbour. It costs {{INR}} 115,000 for a small 98 to 110 horsepower, 50-feet-long mechanised boat to spend three days at sea. The sum needed for a large boat to stay out for a week at a time is around {{INR}} 300,000.<ref>{{cite news
| last = Ramakrishnan
| first = Deepa H.
| title = Funds-starved Kasimedu fishermen all at sea
| newspaper = The Hindu
| location = Chennai
| publisher = Kasturi & Sons
| date = 15 June 2018
| url = https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/funds-starved-kasimedu-fishermen-all-at-sea/article24167336.ece
| access-date = 17 October 2018}}</ref>

==Damage by tsunami==
The harbour was extensively damaged by the [[2004 Indian Ocean tsunami]],<ref>{{cite web
| last = Yadava
| first = Y. S.
| title = The Impact of Tsunami on the Livelihoods of Coastal Fisher Communities in Tamil Nadu, India – A Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment
| url = http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/7C028BE51D24F2CC49256F82002660D2-bobp-sasia-07jan.pdf
| access-date = 26 Oct 2011}}</ref> especially the 500-m trawler wharf, which can berth nearly 500 mechanised boats. The [[tsunami]] resulted in the destruction of about 61 trawlers in the harbour, in addition to partly damaging 43 trawlers and causing minor damage to nearly 400 trawlers. The total loss is estimated at about {{INR}} 160-200 million.<ref name="SalvageWorkBegins"/>

==Developments==
Among its various activities along the coast of India, Ocean Science and Technology for Islands (OSTI) of the [[National Institute of Ocean Technology]] (NIOT) undertakes biofouling studies at the harbour.<ref>{{cite web
| title = OSTI Newsletter (Issue 11)
| publisher = National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai
| date = January–March 2006
| url = http://www.niot.res.in/m5/mbic/gen/newsletter/jan2006.pdf
| access-date = 26 Oct 2011}}</ref>

In December 2011, the Fisheries Department issued work order for a project to improve the facilities at the fishing harbour at a cost of {{INR}} 170 million. The renovation also includes demolition and rebuilding of the auction hall. The work is expected to be completed by 2012.<ref name="HarbourRenovation">{{cite news
| title = Fishing harbour to be refurbished
| newspaper = The Hindu
| location = Chennai
| date = 8 December 2011
| url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article2697455.ece
| archive-url = https://archive.is/20130204043117/http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article2697455.ece
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 4 February 2013
| access-date = 10 Dec 2011}}</ref>

A 2.5-acre land in Kasimedu has been shortlisted along with a 7-acre land in Vaniyanchavadi on [[Rajiv Gandhi Salai]] for a modern fish processing park. The park would initially focus mainly on fish catch by 600 mechanised boats in Chennai. The park is likely to attract large fishing vessels to Chennai to facilitate value addition to their catch. Now Chennai receives fish arrivals through just five or six large fishing vessels.<ref>{{cite news
| last = Lopez
| first = Aloysius Xavier
|author2=Deepa H. Ramakrishnan
| title = Fish processing park planned
| newspaper = The Hindu
| location = Chennai
| date = 9 December 2011
| url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article2700700.ece
| access-date = 10 Dec 2011}}</ref>

In April 2013, the then Chief Minister [[J. Jayalalithaa]] announced that the harbour will be upgraded, including creating additional mooring space, at a cost of {{INR}} 750 million.<ref name="BL_SportFishingBoatingInChetputLake">{{cite news
| title = Tamil Nadu plans to introduce sport-fishing, boating on Chennai's Chetpet lake
| newspaper = Business Line
| location = Chennai
| publisher = The Hindu
| date = 5 April 2013
| url = http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/jayalalithaa-announces-water-sports-eco-park-at-chetput/article4584919.ece
| access-date = 6 Apr 2013}}</ref> The development project includes a 300-metre-long wharf along the northern breakwater; a 200-metre-long wharf for fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) boats; extending the northern wharf (existing boat yard) by 140 metres; two 150-metre-long finger jetties; two 200-metre-long finger jetties; new repairing centre; deepening the harbour; and a sanitary complex. The project is intended to benefit 12,000 fishermen directly and 15,000 fishermen and workers indirectly.<ref name="NIE_HarbourToGetRs75CrMakeover">{{cite news
| title = Kasimedu Harbour Set to Get Rs 75 Crore Makeover
| newspaper = The New Indian Express
| location = Chennai
| publisher = Express Publications
| date = 16 January 2014
| url = http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Kasimedu-Harbour-Set-to-Get-Rs-75-Crore-Makeover/2014/01/16/article2001739.ece
| access-date = 18 Jan 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| title = Two major projects in fisheries sanctioned in Chennai
| newspaper = The Hindu
| location = Chennai
| date = 15 January 2014
| url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/two-major-projects-in-fisheries-sanctioned-in-chennai/article5578664.ece
| access-date = 18 Jan 2014}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|India}}
* [[Chennai Port]]
* [[Ennore Port]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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[[Category:Economy of Chennai]]
[[Category:Ports and harbours of Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Fishing in India]]
[[Category:Transport in Chennai]]

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