Illegal nets and fixed traps in the rivers, channels and canals of Khansama upazila in Dinajpur are killing brood fish and pushing native species towards disappearance.
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.
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 farmer in Muradnagar, Cumilla, says neighbours he is in a land dispute with poisoned his pond, killing fish worth about Tk 40,000.
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.
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.
An American angler fishing the Neosho River in Kansas caught an alligator gar, a species known as a living fossil whose fossils are thought to be about 100 million years old.
The century-old Padua Bazar fish market at the junction of two highways in Cumilla sells about 100 tonnes of fish worth more than Tk 2.5 crore a day, according to traders.
The yearly opening of the Burir Bandh sluice gate on the Suk river turned into a fishing festival again, though many anglers were disappointed by the thin catch.
Fish farmers in Tarash are increasingly using rafts made of plastic drums instead of wooden dinghies to feed the fish in their ponds.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in a World Food Day message that Bangladesh is self-sufficient in grain, fish, meat and eggs and on the verge of self-sufficiency in milk.
Miscreants poured poison into a fish farmer's pond in Noakhali's Subarnachar before dawn, killing fish worth about Tk 2 lakh.
A month-by-month guide for fish farmers sets out the tasks to carry out in Jaistha, from preparing brood fish to protecting nursery ponds from floods.
