Proper utilisation of water bodies to increase fish production stressed

RANGPUR, Nov 25 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong training course have stressed for ensuring proper utilisation of the water bodies, involving the real fishermen, to increase fish production for meeting nutritional demand and cutting poverty rate.
They were addressing concluding ceremony of the daylong training course organised by Upazila Fisheries Department under the Integrated Agriculture Productivity Project at Officers' hall room in Gangachara upazila town here on Monday afternoon.
A total of 25 small and marginal fish farmers of Kolkond Union Fish Farming group from all over Kolkond union in the upazila participated in the training course.
District Fisheries Officer Rawshan Ara Begum attended the ceremony as the chief guest with Gangachara Upazila Fisheries Officer Rezaul Kabir in the chair.
In their speeches, the speakers stressed for proper utilisation of the water bodies, beels, canals, haors and flood plains by bringing those under fish cultivation to make the country self-sufficient on fish output in near future.