BANGLADESH FISH MARKT

BANGLADESH  FISH  MARKT

Temporary ilish markets square measure overtly commerce on the Jamuna bank


Fishermen of the Jamuna stream are defying the government-imposed ban on ilish fishing by catching and commerce ilish in Tangail.

Preventing ilish fishing is troublesome as a result of body activities square measure lax on the stream thanks to the remote pasture areas close to its banks.

The few measures taken by the Department of Fisheries (DOF) and enforcement are ineffective in preventing ilish catching.

The fishermen square measure overtly catching ilish victimisation prohibited “current jal,” nylon fish nets. virtually 20-25tons of mother ilish square measure caught, on average, daily from the Jamuna river— near: Bangabandhu Bridge in Tangail sadar, Nagarpur upazila's Salimabad union, Bhuapur, and Kalihati upazila.

Some fishermen say they pay the stream Police of Asian nation and fisheries officers with fish, and money, so as to catch ilish.

The correspondent found that mother ilish square measure being caught in a region around 20km of stream from Bhuapur upazila's Nikrail to Nagarpur upazila's Salimabad.

Temporary markets to sell ilish are established at 22-23 points, including: Bhuapur upazila's Nikrail, Gobindashi, Bhuapur char, Matikata; Kalihati upazila's Gorilabari, Beltia's Muktala, Alipur; Sadar upazila's Char powli, Kakua's Char, Goynahossain, Hugra, Beguntal, Satani Hugra, South Hugra, Dulbari, Alokdia, Chokgopal, Khosail, Mahmood Nagar, Boalkandi; and Nagarpur upazila's Chouhali close to Jamuna's bank in Salimabad, among others.

Around Tk18-20 lakh’s-worth of ilish square measure being sold-out at these markets, and mother ilish are peddled from homes on the bank.

Later, they sell the ilish to traders and usual customers for Tk200-500 per metric weight unit.

Ilish is additionally being sold-out at Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj district. many fishing boats flock to the Belur char space to sell ilish.

Fisheries Department and stream Police square measure taking restricted measures to forestall this.

On condition of obscurity, some fishermen told the capital of Bangladesh apsis that fisheries administration square measure paid around Tk10,000-18,000, and a few fish, to induce the permission to fish in the dead of night.

They even have to pay Tk1,000-2,000 to native public representatives and authoritative individuals.

Some fishermen square measure caught with fish and fishing nets within the drives by the administration thanks to their carelessness.

Sources from the district Fisheries workplace aforesaid fifty one mobile courts conducted drives in 651 bazaars. to boot, around 9 riverbanks, 931 warehouses, and 1,450 bazaars are inspected.

Around 4.163 plenty of ilish are confiscated and distributed to orphanages and madrasas; and 419,012m of net has been confiscated and burned in these drives.

The mobile courts have filed fifty seven cases, sentenced forty fishermen to totally different terms,, and penalized them Tk89,700.

According to the fishermen, they need to sell ilish to earn their living. they need not been supplied with government funding. They pay enforcement and native authoritative individuals to catch fish— typically they even snatch fish from enforcement once threatening them.

Abdur Razzak, a union Parishad member of Afzalpur ward in Gohaliya urban center in Kalihati said:

"The individuals of Afzalpur earn their living by fishing. they are doing not get funding from the govt. If the govt were to produce funding then the illegitimate catching of fish may well be simply stopped."

Assistant Police Superintendent of Tangail stream Police Humayun Kabir Akand said: "We square measure often conducting drives to forestall the catching of mother ilish throughout the breeding season.

"From October seven until October twenty-five, we tend to inactive twenty-one fishermen – fining them around Tk98,300–; burned 501m of a fishing net; and confiscated 213kg of ilish that we tend to then distributed to orphanages and madrasas.

"We square measure often conducting drives to forestall the catching of mother ilish in the breeding season.”

Tangail district Fisheries official Nurul Islam told the capital of Bangladesh Tribune: "the Jamuna stream has been declared associate degree ilish zone for the primary time this year.

"As it had been the primary year, we tend to couldn't properly take the required steps to forestall mother ilish fishing."

Responding to a question regarding English markets on Jamuna bank, he aforesaid they were conducting regular drives but some square measures close to the stream are remote.

However, to prevent fishermen from catching mother ilish, with the participation of: the district Fisheries workplace, government officers, magistrates, fisheries officers, et al. WHO are conducting the drives, the ban can continue till October twenty-eight.