Staff Reporter :
The government has imposed a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting hilsa from October 9 to 31 to ensure safe spawning of the popular fish, during its peak breeding period.
“Fishermen of the areas will receive food assistance from the government during the period,” State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Md Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru said on Sunday.
The state minister said this after a meeting at the ministry’s conference room in the secretariat. The meeting was held to discuss the infiltration of two foreign vessels along the Bangladesh maritime boundary.
During the time, each fisherman’s family will receive 30kg of rice from the government, under its vulnerable group-feeding (VGF) programme.
Khasru said, those who will violate the ban will be sentenced one to two years imprisonment or fined Tk 5,000 or both through mobile court drives to be conducted at local markets, wholesale markets and fish ghats across the country.
He state minister urged all, including fishermen and fishermen’s associations, to help make the countrywide programme a success.
To ensure the safe reproduction of hilsa, the Fisheries Department has been imposing bans, since 2003, on catching hilsa during the Bangla month of Ashwin to Kartik. The ban is imposed under the Protection and Conservation of Fish Act 1950.
The Fisheries Department, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Police, River Police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), district and upazila administrations will enforce the ban.
The government has imposed a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting hilsa from October 9 to 31 to ensure safe spawning of the popular fish, during its peak breeding period.
“Fishermen of the areas will receive food assistance from the government during the period,” State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Md Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru said on Sunday.
The state minister said this after a meeting at the ministry’s conference room in the secretariat. The meeting was held to discuss the infiltration of two foreign vessels along the Bangladesh maritime boundary.
During the time, each fisherman’s family will receive 30kg of rice from the government, under its vulnerable group-feeding (VGF) programme.
Khasru said, those who will violate the ban will be sentenced one to two years imprisonment or fined Tk 5,000 or both through mobile court drives to be conducted at local markets, wholesale markets and fish ghats across the country.
He state minister urged all, including fishermen and fishermen’s associations, to help make the countrywide programme a success.
To ensure the safe reproduction of hilsa, the Fisheries Department has been imposing bans, since 2003, on catching hilsa during the Bangla month of Ashwin to Kartik. The ban is imposed under the Protection and Conservation of Fish Act 1950.
The Fisheries Department, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Police, River Police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), district and upazila administrations will enforce the ban.
