FisheriesIn tests by Jahangirnagar University researchers, napit khoira, zebrafish and blue panchax ate many more Culex and Aedes larvae than the imported guppy, even in polluted water.
FisheriesThe aquarium sucker fish is now recorded in at least 17 Bangladeshi rivers. In trial ponds it cut mrigal growth by 48.4 percent, and Dhaka's river fishers haul up nets full of a fish nobody buys.
FisheriesMinister Mohammad Aminur Rashid says sanctuaries are being set up in haors, baors, rivers and even the sea to protect native fish breeding grounds. At a BFRI workshop he urged scientists to bring back lost species.
FisheriesMore than fifty people waded into the Shimulbari stream in Phulbari, Kurigram, with bamboo polo traps. The boal, shol and air they once caught are scarce, and they blame banned China duari nets.
FisheriesHundreds of villagers waded into Daduria beel in Boalmari, Faridpur, for the traditional Polo Bawa festival, but caught few fish; they blame China duari nets, ponds dug inside the beel and heavy use of farm chemicals.
FisheriesWith too few fish in Pabna's rivers and beels, traders at more than a hundred drying yards fear this season's dried fish output could fall as much as 30 percent short of target.
FisheriesThousands waded into the Shuk River at Burir Bandh in Thakurgaon Sadar from dawn on Saturday after its five gates were opened, but amateur fishers say ring and current nets have cut the native fish.
FisheriesMore than 100 amateur fishers at Tora, Mirzapur and Rathura in Baniajuri, Ghior, and at least 300 on a branch of the Ichamati caught fish with polo bamboo traps; over 100 such events are expected across Manikganj in October, amid worries that current nets and poison are depleting native fish.
FisheriesThe fisheries department has drawn up a five-year project for 29 baors (oxbow lakes) in Jashore, Jhenaidah, Chuadanga and Kushtia: excavation, fish sanctuaries, fry production and community management. The proposal is awaiting appraisal at the Planning Commission.
FisheriesResearchers from Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University and Noakhali Science and Technology University have found microplastics in Kaptai Lake's fish, water and bed sediment; scientists say people need not stop eating the fish, but the sources of plastic must be shut off.
FisheriesBARCIK data show Netrokona's haors held at least 115 native fish species six decades ago; 61 are found today and 29 have vanished from the area.
FisheriesResidents say a gang poisoned the Dhalai River in Kamalganj, Moulvibazar; the upazila health officer warns that cooking does not fully destroy the poison in dead fish.
Undredged for years, the Kadamtali sanctuary on the Tangon River in Pirganj has silted up, putting thousands of brood fish weighing 30 to 50 kg at risk.
