Commercial fishing contractors were prohibited from the reservoir since it was primarily for urban drinking water, and motor boats would have to some extent polluted the waters with oil. The fishing was restricted, therefore, to the traditional fishermen who were also among the displaced population when the reservoir was built. These fishermen were given low technology assets, bicycles to take fish to market, coolers, nets and so forth. Most importantly, the resettlement agency assisted them in obtaining state fishing licenses and set up an annual reseeding of the reservoir with fingerlings. According to the Village Worker records kept on income generation, the fishing was probably the most lucrative of the household-level rehabilitation schemes. The State where the project was located was well known across India for the quality of its fish which was exported to other States within India. The resettlement agency was considering introducing somewhat higher technology at a later date but was waiting until the traditional fishing families established themselves comfortably on the reservoir.