Fish production to hit 4.52m mts in 2020-\\\'21 FY

Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammed Sayedul Haque has said the country's fish production will go up to 4.52 million metric tonnes in the 2020-'21 fiscal year. "The Fisheries Department has set a target of boosting fish production by 20 per cent by 2020," he told Parliament on Tuesday replying to a scripted question from ruling Awami League MP M Abdul Latif (Chittagong-11). The amount of cultivated fish production will go up to 2.70 million metric tonnes in 2020-21 fiscal, he noted. In line with the Vision 2021, the target has been set to increase production of milk, meat and egg to 9.46 million metric tonnes, 6.96 million metric tonnes and 17.81 billion pieces respectively, the minister said. In the 2014-'15 fiscal, the production of milk, meat and egg were  6.97 million metric tonnes, 5.86 miilon metric tonnes and 10.99 billion pieces, he told the House. In reply to a starred question from AL MP Mamunur Rashid Kiron (Noakhali-3), the Fisheries and Livestock Minister said the government has released some 4,000 metric tonnes fish fry in water bodies across the country in the last six fiscal years. According to the statistics placed by the minister, some 940 metric tonnes fish fry were released in 2014-15 fiscal, while some 653 metric tonnes in 2013-14, some 797 metric tonnes in 2012-'13 and some 1209 metric tonnes in 2011-12 fiscal. In reply to another starred question from AL MP Enamul Haque (Rajshahi-4), Sayedul Haque said the additional 41,000 metric tonnes fish were produced and many endangered species of fish have been emerged due to the release of the fish fry, according to a news agency.

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