Fish cultivation expanding

RAJSHAHI, May 09 (BSS): Fish farming made many people financially solvent along with boosting their social dignity and contributing to meet the demand of animal protein across the country.

Akbar Hossain of Bojorpur village in Mohanpur upazila, alone produced 28.5 tonnes of fish worth around Tk 4.27 million making neat profit of Tk 1.27 million in 2017.

Through ensuring quality, he collects eggs from government hatchery and rivers and breeds fishes from the eggs by himself. In the initial stage, he got training from the upazila fisheries office on fish farming.

Dr Amimul Ehsan, senior upazila fisheries officer of Mohanpur, said there are more than 1,500 fish farmers in the upazila and most of them become succeeded in the fish farming.

District Fisheries Officer Subhash Chandra Shaha told the news agency that fish production has increased significantly here after taking multidimensional development and extension programmes.

Fish production was 52,171 tonnes in 2009 while it increases to over 80,870 tonnes in 2017. Highlighting various progarmmes taken by the Fisheries Department, he said about 95,477 kgs of fish fingerlings were released in internal water-bodies to increase fish production.