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This festival started initially in the form of religious rites as an informal family and communal affair. The Oloro festival has undergone several changes and modifications which makes the event more stylish and developed.
More than 50,000 fisherman had taken part in the annual Oloro fishing festival.
The main event of the festival is the fishing contest in river Mamiwata, where fishing nets and traditional gourds made with calabashes are been used. The fisherman who catches the biggest fish wins a prize of $12500.
In the year 2010 the winner caught a fish weighing 75kg, that is the biggest fish that have been caught in the festival till date.
Oloro Fishing festival is currently one of the most popular festivals in my city.
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