The Matlab Uttar upazila fisheries office recovered 250kg of jatka from a passenger launch in an overnight drive on the Meghna and distributed it to orphanages and the poor.
Traffickers abandoned an endangered black bear cub and fled as the forest department raided Alikadam bazar in Bandarban.
FisheriesA joint team of the fisheries department, river police and upazila administration detained 20 fishermen on the Sandhya river in Pirojpur's Nesarabad on 25 October 2025, the last day of the hilsa ban. Seized current nets were burned and a mobile court sentenced some of the men.
More than two weeks into the 22-day drive to protect mother hilsa, fishermen are still catching hilsa and attacking enforcement teams, according to a BBC Bangla field report.
The administration in Ramgati, Lakshmipur, has seized ice-laden trucks, trawlers and nets from fishermen preparing to catch hilsa illegally during the ban.
The Department of Fisheries' 22-day drive to protect mother hilsa has so far brought 1,301 cases and prison terms for 1,047 people across 38 districts.
An assistant commissioner (land) and an upazila fisheries officer faced an attempted attack while seizing a trawler during a mother hilsa drive in Gosairhat, Shariatpur.
A joint drive by the upazila administration and fisheries office in Araihazar, Narayanganj, seized 50,000 metres of current net and 8 kg of hilsa.
A man returning with hilsa bought during the ban jumped into the Tentulia river in Bauphal, Patuakhali, on seeing a river police patrol and has gone missing.
Joint forces and the fisheries department seized 400 kg of hilsa and three trawlers being used to carry fish on a branch of the Meghna in Shariatpur.
FisheriesDuring the 22-day ban that protects brood hilsa, fisheries officials in Kumarkhali, Kushtia, seized about 5,000 metres of banned current net on the Padma on 11 October 2025 and burnt it the same day.
FisheriesOn the night of 11 October 2025, a river police task force detained 24 fishermen with their boats and nets on the Meghna and Padma in Chandpur for allegedly catching hilsa during the government's 22-day ban, which ran from 4 to 25 October.
River police detained 18 fishermen and seized nets, hilsa and nine boats in a 24-hour drive on the Padma and Meghna in Chandpur.
