After a mob burned the homes and nets of fishermen at Majhipara in Pirganj, Rangpur, the frightened fishers have stopped fishing and nearby markets have run short of local fish.
A Bangladeshi expatriate in New York says one cast of a net in a small river near his home can fill a bucket, and suggests ways to bring back fish in Bangladesh.
Fishers can catch hilsa again from midnight on Monday 25 October, when the 22-day nationwide ban for the main breeding season ends.
Climate change, pollution and silted estuaries are cutting hilsa breeding, and the fish needs research, public awareness and stronger support for poor fishers.
Buyers expect hilsa back in markets from Tuesday 26 October as the 22-day fishing ban ends at midnight and fishers head out hoping for a big catch.
A young man who returned from Malaysia has sold Tk 17 lakh worth of pabda and carp in a single day from a leased government pond in Dumuria, Khulna.
Hilsa fishing resumes after midnight on Monday as the 22-day mother hilsa protection drive ends and a festive mood returns to riverside fishing villages.
Two baghair catfish weighing 31 kg together, caught in the Jamuna river, drew crowds when they went on sale in Singra, Natore.
A fish cutter at Cumilla's Rajganj bazar has built a 12-year business collecting and drying fish scales, which are used in medicines, cosmetics, food supplements and collagen.
The juicy Fazli mango and the Bagda shrimp are set to become Bangladesh's latest geographical indication products.
Bangladesh has added many endangered shark and ray species to its wildlife protection law as poaching rises to meet high international demand.
Fisheries officials in Jhalakathi seized 82,000 metres of illegal current net and 26 kg of hilsa from fishermen defying the ban, and one fisherman was jailed.
A river police drive in hilsa sanctuaries on the Padma and Meghna in Chandpur detained 31 fishermen with 75 kg of mother hilsa and about 55 lakh metres of current net.
