Fishers caught a pangas weighing about 17 kg in the Padma at Goalanda in Rajbari around midday on Tuesday, 6 October. A second pangas of about 8 kg came up in the same net, Prothom Alo reports.
Niranjan Halder and his crew had set out from Jafarganj in Manikganj and cast their net downstream of the Daulatdia ferry ghat. Ten to twelve kilometres downstream, at the river mouth near Mojlishpur in Ujanchar union, they felt a heavy tug and hauled up the large fish.
Around 3pm the two fish were auctioned at a wholesale depot in Daulatdia bazar. The highest bidder, Sohel Molla, owner of Sumaiya Fish Depot at the No 5 ferry ghat, paid Tk 37,400 for the 17 kg fish at Tk 2,200 a kilo and Tk 14,400 for the 8 kg one at Tk 1,800 a kilo.
Sohel Molla said he sold the smaller fish at Tk 1,900 a kilo for Tk 15,200. The big one was tied by a rope to the pontoon at the No 6 ghat while he bargained with a Dhaka buyer at Tk 2,300 a kilo, which would bring Tk 39,100.
Large fish are scarce in the Padma now, he said; this was the first pangas of that size in about two months. Big fish used to turn up from time to time, but now only one or two are caught, and those are often sold on the river itself.
Source: Prothom Alo
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