EnvironmentAfter Cyclone Sidr, a World Bank-funded project built about 62 km of embankment around polder 35/1 at Sharankhola, but cracks and slips appeared within a year, and the Baleswar's erosion has now reached its foot.
EnvironmentPugmarks stretching about half a kilometre were found on a char of the Bhola river at Sonatala village in Sharankhola, Bagerhat, on Monday morning; the Forest Department says the tiger swam over from the Sundarbans and went back, but has told villagers to stay alert.
FisheriesWith too few hilsa in the Bay, fishers, trawler owners and traders in Sarankhola and along the Bagerhat coast owe lakhs of taka, and the 22-day fishing ban has added to the strain.
A fisherman from Sarankhola, Bagerhat, caught a 20 kg koral (barramundi) in the Bhola river of the Sundarbans; it sold for Tk 36,000, or Tk 1,800 a kilo.
