FisheriesRajbari's Padma fishers face the hilsa ban short of cards and rice
As the 22-day ban began, rice was allotted to 5,592 of Rajbari's 6,304 card-holding hilsa fishers, and many who have fished for years say they were never given a card.
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FisheriesChandpur fishermen want patrols in estuaries and canals, not just the hilsa sanctuary
As a 22-day ban begins on 70 km of the Padma and Meghna, fishermen and traders say it will fall short unless linked canals and estuaries are watched and boats from Shariatpur and Munshiganj are kept out.
FisheriesCox's Bazar hilsa output falls 1,131 tonnes in a year
District fisheries figures show hilsa production in Cox's Bazar fell by about 20.5 percent in 2025-26; officials blame climate change, silted rivers and overfishing.
FisheriesMaritime university sets up a cell to help enforce the hilsa breeding ban
Speakers at a BMU meeting said hilsa output fell from 571,000 tonnes in 2022-23 to 500,000 in 2024-25; focal persons, landing-site awareness drives and joint research were agreed.
FisheriesHilsa hits Tk 3,000 a kg in Chandpur ahead of the 22-day breeding-season ban
A one-kilogram hilsa that cost Tk 2,500 two weeks ago now sells for Tk 2,800-3,000; all fishing in sanctuary areas is banned from 8 to 29 October, the fisheries office says.
Fisheries650,000 fishing families to get 25kg of rice each during the 22-day hilsa ban
For the 22-day ban protecting spawning hilsa, the government has allocated 1,657 tonnes of VGF rice for 646,290 fishing families in 168 upazilas of 38 districts, to be handed out by 8 October.
FisheriesSix months in jail and a cancelled fisher card for catching mother hilsa in Chandpur
For the 8-29 October ban, Chandpur will set up five temporary police camps in its 70 km sanctuary, block canal mouths and shut ice factories; 41,390 fishers in the district will get 25 kg of food aid each.
FisheriesSeasonal fishers ready nets and boats in Shibalaya chars before the hilsa ban
Ahead of the 8-29 October hilsa fishing ban, some 1,500 seasonal fishers on the Padma-Jamuna chars of Shibalaya, Manikganj are openly preparing boats and nets, and banned current nets are on sale in Aricha bazaar.
FisheriesBangladesh's hilsa output down 71,000 tonnes in two years as fish shrink
Late-season hilsa landings have lowered prices in Chandpur, but Department of Fisheries figures show two straight years of falling production, a 22 percent drop in the sea catch, and smaller fish with far fewer carrying eggs.
FisheriesBangladesh bans hilsa fishing and sales for 22 days, 8-29 October, to protect spawning
The national hilsa task force decided that the Mother Hilsa Conservation Drive 2026 will run from 8 to 29 October, with catching, transporting, storing and selling hilsa banned across the country.
AgribusinessChandpur trawler owner fined Tk 1 lakh over 350 kg of rotten hilsa
On 29 October 2025 the consumer rights directorate seized 350 kg of rotten hilsa from a trawler from Monpura in Chandpur, buried the fish and fined the trawler's owner Tk 1 lakh.
AgribusinessPatuakhali markets short of hilsa, prices high after 22-day ban ends
After the 22-day mother-hilsa ban ended in October 2025, fishermen returned to the rivers and the sea, but supply in five Patuakhali markets was very low. Hilsa of three to a kilogram sold at Tk 1,000 a kg.
FisheriesHilsa Production in the Meghna at Chandpur Expected to Rise After 2021 Ban
After the 22-day ban of October 2021, a BFRI hilsa researcher in Chandpur said more mother hilsa had spawned in the Meghna than the year before and expected production to rise.