Each day, fishers take their oruvas (outrigger canoes) and go out in search of the fish for which Negombo is famous, selling the day's catch in the atmospheric fish market near the old Dutch fort. It's a pungent affair, and tables are piled high with tuna, barracuda, sailfish, snappers and mounds of semi-translucent anchovies.
Across the lagoon bridge there’s a second fish market. If you can stagger out of bed at 5am, it’s a good place to watch much bigger fishing boats return with their catches.
