FisheriesAs severe cold set in across Bangladesh in early January 2022, the Department of Agricultural Extension advised farmers to vaccinate chicks against Ranikhet and Gumboro on a vet's advice, keep cold wind out of coops, and manage ponds with care through the winter.
Three friends in Jashore's Sharsha upazila are farming native shing fish with modern methods and their own feed, and others in the area have followed them.
Young Chuadanga innovator Ahmedul Kabir Upal has built PondGuard, a solar-powered camera and app system that lets fish farmers watch remote ponds from home.
Fish farmers in Tarash are increasingly using rafts made of plastic drums instead of wooden dinghies to feed the fish in their ponds.
A 10-foot dead dolphin bearing injury marks washed up on Kuakata beach in Patuakhali, and fisheries officials plan to try a post-mortem.
A baghair fish weighing three maunds (120 kg) was cut up and sold at Tk 2,000 a kg at Lalbazar fish market in Sylhet city.
FisheriesA Jagonews24 report told Thai koi farmers to fight ulcer disease with salt, weekly water changes, lower stocking, floating feed and less netting; FAO-published studies tie the disease to cold weather and skin damage.
Fisherman Gani Mia, out to catch boal on the Meghna, instead hooked a shapla pata fish (stingray) weighing nearly seven maunds.
A young entrepreneur in Kaliganj is paying for his own and his siblings' studies by breeding ornamental fish for aquarium traders.
Wild-caught kuchia eels from Rupganj are exported to China, Hong Kong and Japan, earning about Tk 6 crore in foreign currency a year, but habitat loss threatens the trade.
After watching YouTube, Iqbal Hossain of Cumilla built three fish tanks in his yard, and now meets his family's needs and sells to neighbours.
Some Bangladeshi fish farmers say they get no specific government guidance on farming and drug use, and researchers warn the fish may harm health.
After RAS, trials of biofloc fish farming have begun in Bangladesh, with two young computer engineers in Uttara, Dhaka, turning full-time to the technology.
