In a large pond near Panch Pir Mazar and in Isabpur village of Kahalu upazila, Bogura, fishermen are harvesting farmed fish. As the net is hauled to one bank, live fish thrash inside it. Some try to leap clear, others are caught in the mesh, and the small ones are gently freed and returned to the water.
Eight pictures by Prothom Alo photographer Soyel Rana follow the day. In the first, fisherman Bipul Chandra drags the net; in another he stands in the pond with a fish in his hands.
Pangas and mrigal hang in the mesh as a fisherman carefully works them loose. Fish churn inside the gathered net while small ones jump out through the gaps.
On the bank, pabda are weighed in plastic crates. The last picture shows a bhotbhoti, a local motor cart, loaded with pabda fingerlings being taken to be released into a pond.
Prothom Alo's photographs are not reproduced here; the picture shown is a general view of pond fishing in Bangladesh.
Photo: Shahidul Hasan Roman / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Source: Prothom Alo
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