FisheriesBhola fishers say 25 kg of rice will not last the 22-day hilsa ban
Fishing is banned from 8 to 29 October to protect spawning hilsa; 143,656 of Bhola's 168,370 registered fishers get 25 kg of rice each, and fishers want 50 kg plus cash.
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River-fed ponds turn a Bhola union into a Tk 200 crore-a-year fish market
Hundreds of ponds filled with river water in Char Samaiya union of Bhola Sadar now farm fish commercially; local people put the union's annual fish trade at about Tk 200 crore.
Fisheries
Bhola fisherman nets a 24 kg black carp in the Meghna; 18 buyers share it for Tk 17,500
A 24 kg black carp was caught in the Meghna off Bhola by fisherman Md Sultan Sardar; the upazila fisheries officer says the East Asian carp may have escaped a farm pond in flood water and grown in the river.
Fisheries
Empty nets and moneylenders' loans push Bhola's coastal fishermen out of the trade
Falling catches, dearer fuel, repeated fishing bans and loans from NGOs and moneylenders are driving many fishermen in Charfasson and Monpura, Bhola, to look for other work.
Environment
Bhola imam has planted up to 60,000 roadside trees in 34 years, now favours palmyra
Rezaul Kibria Babul, imam of a mosque in Omarpur union of Charfasson upazila, Bhola, raises seedlings in his own nursery and has lined village roads with fruit, medicinal and palmyra trees for 34 years, funded by selling inherited land and his savings.
Environment
Coast Guard seizes dredger on the Tetulia in Bhola, warns sand mining is eating cropland
Seven men were detained with a dredger and a bulkhead while lifting sand illegally from the Tetulia river in Bhola's Borhanuddin upazila and fined Tk 1 lakh by a mobile court; the Coast Guard says such extraction is accelerating erosion and threatening riverside farmland and homesteads.
Fisheries
A 15-kilo wild pangas from the Meghna fetches Tk 20,100 at Monpura auction
The fish went for about Tk 1,340 a kilo including VAT and is bound for Jatrabari in Dhaka; the fisheries officer says river-caught pangas of this size is rare and commands far more than farmed fish.
Vegetables
Capsicum output triples to 475 tonnes as Bangladeshi growers bet on colour
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics figures show capsicum production rising from about 150 tonnes in 2021-22 to 475 tonnes in 2024-25, with Bhola growing 55 percent of the crop and one Jashore farmer reporting average sales of Tk 50 lakh a year.