22 Fishermen Jailed in Faridpur for Catching Hilsa
A mobile court in Faridpur's Sadarpur upazila has jailed 22 fishermen for catching mother hilsa in the Padma during the breeding-season ban.
A mobile court in Faridpur's Sadarpur upazila has jailed 22 fishermen for catching mother hilsa in the Padma during the breeding-season ban.
Fishermen caught taking hilsa on the Rajbari stretch of the Padma in defiance of the government ban were detained over 24 hours and given jail terms or fines.
An assistant commissioner (land) and an upazila fisheries officer faced an attempted attack while seizing a trawler during a mother hilsa drive in Gosairhat, Shariatpur.
Of the 1,200 tonnes of hilsa Bangladesh cleared for export to India before the puja, only 144 tonnes arrived, the lowest ever, importers in Howrah say.
A joint drive by the upazila administration and fisheries office in Araihazar, Narayanganj, seized 50,000 metres of current net and 8 kg of hilsa.
A mobile court fined four fishermen for catching hilsa in the Jamuna at Chauhali, Sirajganj, in breach of the ban and seized one and a half lakh metres of net.
Driven by income needs and debt, 30 to 35 per cent of fishing families use illegal nets, but 93 per cent of them do not know these nets cut fish production and breeding.
Five people caught buying hilsa in Zajira, Shariatpur, in breach of the breeding-season ban were fined Tk 5,000 each.
The Gosairhat upazila administration seized two maunds of hilsa and a trawler used to sell fish caught on the Meghna in breach of the breeding-season ban.
A mobile court in Chandpur's Haimchar jailed eight of 11 fishermen caught hilsa fishing in a Meghna river sanctuary during the ban.
Bangladesh Air Force helicopters are flying night surveillance missions over key rivers and coastal areas to stop illegal fishing during the 2025 hilsa breeding season.
A man returning with hilsa bought during the ban jumped into the Tentulia river in Bauphal, Patuakhali, on seeing a river police patrol and has gone missing.
A joint drive at Akmal Ali fishermen's ghat in Chattogram seized 2,500 kg of mother hilsa from four fishing boats back from the sea.