BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a training session here Saturday underscored the need for safe fish farming besides promoting its production through the best use of existing natural resources.
They viewed that safe fish production and its marketing has become a big challenge at present and this is the high time for facing the challenge collectively.
In addition to the administrative measures, time has come to forge social resistance against the manufacturing of adulterated and unhygienic fish meals, its marketing and use of formalin in fishes.
All quarters like fish farmers, hatchery owners, fish sellers, fish meal manufacturers and sellers and the field level fisheries officers and staff should work together to this end. There is no alternative to substantial and sustainable promotion of good aquaculture practice, they added.
The observations came at a daylong training styled “Good Aquaculture Practice and its Proper Dissemination” held at the seminar hall of Department of Geography and Environmental Science in Rajshahi University (RU).
Department of Fisheries and Bangladesh Aquaculture Alliance jointly organized the training in association with Bangladesh Economic Growth Project and the Ministry of Commerce.
Vice-chancellor of RU Prof Mijanuddin addressed the opening session as the chief guest with Mahbubul Islam, Divisional Deputy Director of Deparment of Fisheries, in the chair.
Deputy Project Director ABM Saifullah, District Fisheries Officer Golam Rabbani, Director of Bangladesh Aquaculture Alliance Shamsul Alam and Project Consultant Dr Syed Istiaque also spoke.
Referring to the immense prospect of the fisheries sector the speakers said safe fish production could easily be increased to a great extent if the natural resources were utilized properly. They, however, said the traders can keep their fishes live for a good number of days if they adopt some simple techniques instead of using formalin.
They recommended providing the farmers with latest scientific technologies and knowledge for producing quality fish fries and fingerlings for more fish cultivation.
They called for involving more people in fish farming for the sake of meeting the protein demand as fish fulfill at least 60 percent need of the animal protein especially of the poor and marginal communities.
