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i:i4. Thundal kiru (Tamil). 
Locality : Katticaloa. 
Fish caught : Para, koduwa, kala, &c. 
Descrifiion : A small line and hook. Hook 3 inches long. 
(See ThundaJ of Kankesanturai and also Thundal valai of 
Kalpibiya). 
135.— Kaddai (or Katte) (Sinhalese). 
Locality : Negombo. 
Description : This consists of a group of three or four 
trunks of coconut trees fixed in the mud and projecting a foot 
or so above the water. They are confined to the eastern side 
of the Mankuliya channel in the Negombo lagoon. Around 
the stakes dead branches are placed, thus affording an 
attractive shelter for fishes. 
The kaddais have been a source of trouble between the 
Munnakarai fishermen and the Sea street fishermen. The 
latter fish in the open sea when the weather is favourable, 
at other times they practise net fishing in the lagoon. The 
Munnakarai fishermen, on the other hand, are lagoon fisher- 
men, and they have regarded the kaddais as their special 
property. The dispute is a long standing one, and as far back 
as 1878 the Assistant Government Agent, Mr. Green, caused 
all the kaddais to be removed, and for twenty years after 
that few stakes were erected. 
The objections of the Sea street fishermen to the use of the 
kaddais are as follows : — • 
(1) The fish are attracted by the kaddais, and the main 
channel in which the Sea street people fish is thus 
deprived of its normal fish population. 
(2) They entrap immature fish. 
(3) They interfere with navigatioii, and also prevent the Sea 
street people from using their nets to full advantage. 
(5) Whenever the Sea street people catch good sized fish 
they are charged by the Munnakarai people with 
having obtained them from the kaddai. 
