Barisal Correspondent :
Workers of Hilsa market passing idle times in Barisal as 22 days restrictions against netting fish on rivers going on
Government imposed the ban against netting fish on rivers, marketing, selling, transporting of hilsa from October 1 to 22 to protect mother hilsa for safe spawning.
Due to this restriction around five thousand people working in different fish landing, loading, unloading and packaging, marketing points of Barisal became idle.
So workers at hilsa depot, specially in Barisal Port Road Wholesale Hilsa Market are passing hard times.
They have spent their idle times at business centres and tea stalls of the area.
The temporary laborers demanded compensation during the ban period.
Hossain Ali, a leading hilsa-market worker (Labour Sardar) at the area, said, there are around five thousand workers becomes job-less during this ban-period. So they are struggling hard to maintain their daily livelihoods. Compensations for workers of hilsa-market should also be considered along with fishermen during the ban period.
After visiting the whole sale hilsa market at Barisal Port Road area it was found that seasonal workers passing their idle times at tea stall playing cards at their business centres. Some of them also searching jobs to earn some amount for maintaining daily livelihoods, some are passing time by sleeping and gossiping.
Ajit Kumar Das Monu, president of Barisal Zilla Matsya Aratdar Samity, said job-less hilsa market workers facing an acute financial crisis to maintain their family expenditure as they have no savings to face the crisis. Some of hilsa market workers already leaving this business centre went to search new jobs.
In peak season around five thousand temporary laborers usually work in this whole sale market, but now they are jobless. We demanding support from government to compassionate them, he added.
Workers of Hilsa market passing idle times in Barisal as 22 days restrictions against netting fish on rivers going on
Government imposed the ban against netting fish on rivers, marketing, selling, transporting of hilsa from October 1 to 22 to protect mother hilsa for safe spawning.
Due to this restriction around five thousand people working in different fish landing, loading, unloading and packaging, marketing points of Barisal became idle.
So workers at hilsa depot, specially in Barisal Port Road Wholesale Hilsa Market are passing hard times.
They have spent their idle times at business centres and tea stalls of the area.
The temporary laborers demanded compensation during the ban period.
Hossain Ali, a leading hilsa-market worker (Labour Sardar) at the area, said, there are around five thousand workers becomes job-less during this ban-period. So they are struggling hard to maintain their daily livelihoods. Compensations for workers of hilsa-market should also be considered along with fishermen during the ban period.
After visiting the whole sale hilsa market at Barisal Port Road area it was found that seasonal workers passing their idle times at tea stall playing cards at their business centres. Some of them also searching jobs to earn some amount for maintaining daily livelihoods, some are passing time by sleeping and gossiping.
Ajit Kumar Das Monu, president of Barisal Zilla Matsya Aratdar Samity, said job-less hilsa market workers facing an acute financial crisis to maintain their family expenditure as they have no savings to face the crisis. Some of hilsa market workers already leaving this business centre went to search new jobs.
In peak season around five thousand temporary laborers usually work in this whole sale market, but now they are jobless. We demanding support from government to compassionate them, he added.
Mofiz Mia, a hilsa-market worker working at Das Fishing Traders at Port Road wholesale hilsa market, said ` our children sometimes become bound to starve during 22 days ban. We need at least some support for food supply from the government under food support programme, like fishermen during the ban period.
