AgribusinessHilsa supply in Bhola town's market rose somewhat on 26 August 2025, yet one-kilo fish still sold for Tk 2,500 to 2,700 and buyers said they could not afford the sizes they wanted.
As hilsa returns to the nets off Monpura, fishermen say pirates are kidnapping crews for ransom and selling tokens that let boats fish without attack.
A 25-year-old man in Manpura, Bhola, died after a snake he had caught and was keeping bit him while he was performing with it.
Md Yunus Bepari, 60, died of a snakebite while under treatment at Monpura Upazila Health Complex in Bhola on Sunday night (29 June).
Despite no fishing ban and ample supply, prices of river, sea and farmed fish have risen in Bhola, with river hilsa at Tk 2,000 a kg.
Farmers in Monpura, Bhola, sell green coconuts for Tk 50 to 60 each, while the same coconuts retail for Tk 150 to 200 in Dhaka.
A spotted deer that fled into a village in Monpura, Bhola, as tidal water flooded its forest has been rescued, treated and released.
Bhola farmers with a bumper watermelon crop say commission agents and wholesalers fix low prices, while retail prices run several times higher.
Ten days into a two-month ban on all fishing in Bhola's Meghna and Tentulia rivers, fishermen have not received the government rice allocated to them.
Tourists are no longer flocking to Monpura in Bhola, once known as the 'kingdom of deer', because unchecked hunting has pushed its deer to the brink of disappearing.
Young hilsa are being caught freely in Bhola's Meghna and Tentulia rivers and sold openly, while the fisheries department is largely inactive.
Twenty-nine slaughtered migratory birds found in a sack abandoned on a char in the Meghna were handed over to the Forest Department in Bhola.
Fishermen in Bhola were preparing boats and nets to return to the Meghna and Tetulia as the 22-day hilsa ban ended at midnight on 3 November.
