FisheriesNo hilsa in the Sugandha: Jhalakathi fishers sink into NGO instalments and moneylenders' advances as the season ends and another ban looms
Fishers at Ponabalia, Deuri and Nalchity's Matibhanga cast their nets and come back near empty; district fisheries officer Enamul Haque says the June-September catch missed its target, and while other districts' rivers teemed with hilsa this year the Sugandha and Bishkhali did not, possibly because