Fisheries
Fish Farmers in Tarash Ride Drum Rafts to Feed Their Ponds
Fish farmers in Tarash are increasingly using rafts made of plastic drums instead of wooden dinghies to feed the fish in their ponds.
Fish farmers in Tarash are increasingly using rafts made of plastic drums instead of wooden dinghies to feed the fish in their ponds.
Fisherman Gani Mia, out to catch boal on the Meghna, instead hooked a shapla pata fish (stingray) weighing nearly seven maunds.
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.