Cooking
Shrimp dumplings in coconut milk: Barishal's chingri joltoba
In Barishal's joltoba, balls of ground small shrimp go straight into simmering coconut-milk curry instead of being fried; Shahnaz Setu gives the recipe.
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Fisheries
FisheriesHow the shing catfish survives for months under dry mud
An air sac that lets it breathe air, aestivation in burrows, a thick mucus coat and storing waste as urea instead of ammonia carry the stinging catfish through drought.
EnvironmentFactory waste and land-filling threaten Gazipur's Belai Beel; native fish down by half
Belai Beel, some 50 square kilometres across 35 villages in four Gazipur upazilas, once met about a third of the district's fish demand; the Department of Fisheries says fish variety and quantity have both fallen below half amid toxic waste, grabbing and sand-filling.
Cooking
Prawns in green coconut: a recipe for dab chingri
With water receding from canals and beels, prawns are plentiful; Shahnaz Setu gives the steps for dab chingri, prawns cooked in coconut water with tender coconut flesh and almond paste.
Fisheries
20 kg koral netted in the Sundarbans' Bhola river sells for Tk 36,000
A fisherman from Sarankhola, Bagerhat, caught a 20 kg koral (barramundi) in the Bhola river of the Sundarbans; it sold for Tk 36,000, or Tk 1,800 a kilo.
EnvironmentDeep depression churns the Bay, signal 3 at Chattogram and Cox's Bazar
A deep depression over the north Andaman Sea has prompted local cautionary signal 3 at Chattogram and Cox's Bazar ports, and fishing boats have been told to stay out of the deep sea.
EnvironmentSand trucks' road blocked its mouth: Netrokona's Atrakhali river now a sandbank
The mouth of the Atrakhali, a branch of the Someshwari in Netrokona, was sealed by a road for sand trucks, leaving the river a sandbank, riverside fields without irrigation and native fish gone.
Fisheries
Sea hilsa sold as 'Padma' fish in Rangpur at up to Tk 3,500 a kilo
No consignment of Chandpur or Padma hilsa has reached Rangpur's City Bazar in a year, traders say, yet Chattogram and Cox's Bazar fish are sold under those names, lit to look fresh.
Fisheries
Raising native puti in a homestead pond: preparing the pond and stocking fry
Because it feeds on natural pond food, native puti can be raised cheaply in homestead ponds for the table and extra income; clearing predatory fish and acclimatising fry are the keys.
FisheriesKhulna farmer Razia Khatun earns more from one pond with fish, prawns and vegetables
A 24-year-old farmer in Khulna made a profit of Tk 80,214 in one season from a 15-decimal pond using integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, and now trains other farmers, WorldFish reports.
FisheriesUttar Pradesh more than doubles fish output by leasing village ponds and rivers
Uttar Pradesh says fish production rose from 6.29 lakh to 15.90 lakh tonnes in eight years after it leased more than 80,000 hectares of Gram Sabha ponds and 2,205 km of rivers for fisheries.
Environment50 metres of Kopotakkho embankment collapse in Ashashuni; villagers fight the breach
About 50 metres of the Kopotakkho River embankment has collapsed at Sripur-Kurikahunia in Pratapnagar union, Ashashuni, Satkhira; villagers are shoring it up with sand and earth as fish enclosures and crops face flooding.
FisheriesRabnabad channel dredging is changing hilsa routes and building shoals, researchers fear
Researchers say silt and submerged shoals building up in upstream rivers after dredging of the Rabnabad channel for Payra port are blocking hilsa migration; the catch has fallen year after year since the 2022-23 record.