The Chinese fishing nets at Fort Kochi, located in the Kochi city of Kerala, remembering the legacy of Indo-China trading many centuriers ago, make up a very popular tourist attraction. They are fixed land installations, which are used for a very unique and unusual method of fishing. Operated from the shore, these nets are set up on bamboo and teak poles and held horizontally by huge mechanisms, which lower them into the sea. They look somewhat like hammocks and are counter-weighed by large stones tied to ropes. The long rows of chinese nets silhouetted against the sunset present a spectacular sight of Cochin's waterfront.