City Desk :
Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim today said the government is working tirelessly to ensure safe fish production and its supply.
“There was no international standard laboratory in Bangladesh in the past to control the quality of fish. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has set up international standard laboratories in the country. The government is working sincerely to ensure that no one can produce harmful fish in the country,” he said, reports BSS.
The minister was talking to the reporters after visiting the three-day ‘Central Fish Fair’ organized at the ground adjacent to the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital on the occasion of the celebration of the National Fisheries Week-2022.
About the government’s endeavors for the betterment of the fisheries sector, he further said it is now possible to test fish feed and the fish to be exported and formalin is no longer available in the market due to government’s pragmatic action.
The minister said officials of the Department of Fisheries and other departments concerned are alert so that no harmful fish could be sold in the market or any other place instead of safe fish.
The minister said that Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman first released fish fry in Ganabhaban Lake to enrich the fisheries sector of Bangladesh.
In continuation of the step showed by Bangabandhu, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, his worthy daughter, is investing in proper way to enrich the fisheries sector in the country.
He hoped that the country will earn foreign exchange from abroad by exporting fish. He urged private entrepreneurs to come forward to further expand the fisheries sector.
“The state will provide all kinds of assistance to those who would come forward to this end,” he said. Earlier, Rezaul and Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque visited various stalls at the Central Fish Fair.
Lawmakers Tanvir Hasan Choto Monir and Shamima Akhter Khanam, Secretary of Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock Dr Mohammad Yamin Chowdhury, Additional Secretary Shyamal Chandra Karmakar, Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC) Chairman Md Hemayet Hussain, Director General of Department of Fisheries Mahbubul Haque, Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) Director General Yahya Mahmud and senior officials concerned were also present, on the occasion.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina virtually inaugurated the three-day ‘Central Fish Fair’, arranged by the Department of Fisheries, from her Ganabhaban official residence this morning.
