Coast

The coast of Berhampur island is primarily used for fishing and transporting materials and people. 

There are various stakeholders on the coast- the fishermen, the residents living near the edge, people engaged in farming and aquaculture. 

The coast is a shared resource and is distributed evenly among all fishermen based on a lottery system where each fisherman gets to keep the catch from a particular fishing net for 15 days which is spread 40 haath away from each other. 

Due to increasing salinity in water, it becomes difficult to grow crops and hence some people have also shifted to tourism where various resorts have been built along the southern edge. 

The resorts feature small cabins placed with a central artificial water body. The proportions of a cabin are the same as the proportions of soibhaghar in the settlement (3.7m × 4m)

The Mainsa village jetty, mainly used for fishing, saw land getting reclaimed to create a barrier for the boats which would earlier get destroyed during the cyclone. In Behrampur village a new jetty is being built into the lagoon to offload vehicles and raw materials. 

Various bunds have also been created on the coastal edge making way for aquaculture farms.