UNB, Dhaka :
The catching, selling, transportation and hoarding of hilsa resumed on Thursday as the 22-day ban imposed by the government expired.
Fishermen have started catching hilsa and selling those again with full enthusiasm.
According to UNB Chandpur correspondent, fish ghat workers there were seen also working with renewed zeal at Railway Boro Station Fish Ghat in Chandpur at noon as large size of Hilsas were coming at the ghat from remote areas.
A 1.2 kg size of hilsa was being sold at Tk 1400 per kg at this ghat while a 600 gram weighing hilsa sold at Tk 600 per kg, said fish traders Roni Bhuiyan and Afzal Miah.
Chief scientific officer of Chandpur Fisheries Research institute and hilsa researcher Dr. Anisur Rahman said the 3.87 lakh metric ton of hilsa got produced in the last year, adding that he expected the production of the fish will be 5 lakh metric ton this
year as they earned successful in the drives to stop the catching hilsa from October 12 to November 2. Chandpur district fisheries officer Safikur Rahman said the destruction of mother hilsa has come down at zero figures.
Deputy Commissioner of Chandpur Abdus Sabur Mandal said the fishermen and general people have accepted the ban of the government as the administration has created awareness among the fishermen, adding that the country’s people will get the result of the awareness next. Talking to UNB, many veteran teachers and elderly people said a chapter on ‘eggs bearing hilsa fish and fish fries’ may be included in the syllabuses of the textbooks of high schools, colleges and madrasah to create mass consciousness among the future generation.
Bagerhat Upokolio Motsojibi Samity President Sheikh Idris Ali said the fishermen have managed a huge catch of hilsa this year as the government imposed a ban on catching, selling, transportation and hoarding of hilsa for 15 days last year.
Idris Ali expected that they will net an even bigger haul next year following 22-day ban of hilsa during its peak breeding season, adding that the fishermen will go to the sea on Thursday following the ban.
He however alleged that fishermen from India and Myanmar entered Bangladeshi waters illegally during the ban and caught hilsa.
Bagerhat district Fisheries officer Abdul Odud said the fisheries department would continue their drive to stop the use of vendijal, a type of net that traps all kinds of fish and fish eggs and jatka.
The catching, selling, transportation and hoarding of hilsa resumed on Thursday as the 22-day ban imposed by the government expired.
Fishermen have started catching hilsa and selling those again with full enthusiasm.
According to UNB Chandpur correspondent, fish ghat workers there were seen also working with renewed zeal at Railway Boro Station Fish Ghat in Chandpur at noon as large size of Hilsas were coming at the ghat from remote areas.
A 1.2 kg size of hilsa was being sold at Tk 1400 per kg at this ghat while a 600 gram weighing hilsa sold at Tk 600 per kg, said fish traders Roni Bhuiyan and Afzal Miah.
Chief scientific officer of Chandpur Fisheries Research institute and hilsa researcher Dr. Anisur Rahman said the 3.87 lakh metric ton of hilsa got produced in the last year, adding that he expected the production of the fish will be 5 lakh metric ton this
year as they earned successful in the drives to stop the catching hilsa from October 12 to November 2. Chandpur district fisheries officer Safikur Rahman said the destruction of mother hilsa has come down at zero figures.
Deputy Commissioner of Chandpur Abdus Sabur Mandal said the fishermen and general people have accepted the ban of the government as the administration has created awareness among the fishermen, adding that the country’s people will get the result of the awareness next. Talking to UNB, many veteran teachers and elderly people said a chapter on ‘eggs bearing hilsa fish and fish fries’ may be included in the syllabuses of the textbooks of high schools, colleges and madrasah to create mass consciousness among the future generation.
Bagerhat Upokolio Motsojibi Samity President Sheikh Idris Ali said the fishermen have managed a huge catch of hilsa this year as the government imposed a ban on catching, selling, transportation and hoarding of hilsa for 15 days last year.
Idris Ali expected that they will net an even bigger haul next year following 22-day ban of hilsa during its peak breeding season, adding that the fishermen will go to the sea on Thursday following the ban.
He however alleged that fishermen from India and Myanmar entered Bangladeshi waters illegally during the ban and caught hilsa.
Bagerhat district Fisheries officer Abdul Odud said the fisheries department would continue their drive to stop the use of vendijal, a type of net that traps all kinds of fish and fish eggs and jatka.
