Rui, catla and mrigal; shing, magur and pabda; shol, taki, hilsa and the featherback: eighteen of the fish that once filled every beel and canal in Bangladesh, photographed alive.
Most of Bangladesh's traditional native fish are vanishing from the canals, beels and rivers where they were once abundant; some survive thanks to the country's fish farmers. Here are eighteen of them, in photographs — the carp of the pond, the catfish of the mud, the snakeheads of the paddy field and the hilsa of the river.
1 / 18Native fish of Bangladesh — a catch from Arial Beel, Munshiganj. Photo: Bellayet / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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