How to Help Pabda Fish Breed
Pabda, a popular and tasty fish now close to extinction, can be protected through artificial breeding, from brood selection and hatching to rearing fry and stocking nursery ponds.
Pabda, a popular and tasty fish now close to extinction, can be protected through artificial breeding, from brood selection and hatching to rearing fry and stocking nursery ponds.
FisheriesPabda farming in Maheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah grew from two farmers in 2016 to 30 by September 2020, with output of more than 150 tonnes in the previous season.
FisheriesHow to prepare a pond, stock, feed and harvest pabda alongside shing and carps: 50 pabda and 100 shing per decimal with five carp species, ready for harvest in seven to eight months.
A question-and-answer guide to rearing pabda, a popular fish that is becoming scarce in Bangladesh.
FisheriesPabda, a prized small catfish now scarce in Bangladesh's open waters, can be raised in ponds; this guide follows the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute's method.
After returning from abroad and losing his business to fire, Benzir of Dumuria in Khulna has made a success of pabda farming.
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.