On 12.11.1995 around 11.30 P.M. a fire occurred in
the boat building yard at Kasaragod, 100 km south of
Karwar in Uttara Kannada District, resulting in unprecedented
devastation of property and materials. The fire
damaged totally 3 boat building and repairing yards
(the only ones available in the area) located on the left
bank of the river Sharavati at its lower reaches in close
proximity to the fish landing centre of Kasaragod
