The price of hilsa witnessed further rise on the retail markets in the capital over the week ending Friday on the eve of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla new year. Traders said the demand for hilsa was increasing with the Pahela Baishakh approaching and people were taking preparations to celebrate the occasion which ... Read more
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No hilsa fishing for 11 days
The government has imposed a countrywide ban on catching, transporting, marketing and selling hilsa fish for 11 days, starting from today, to facilitate its egg laying and boost hilsa production. Uzzal Bikash Datta, secretary of the fisheries and livestock ministry, announced the ban yesterday at a press conference at the Department of Fisheries in the
Hilsha now pricey
Prices of other fishes go up The price of Hilsa has increased in the city kitchen markets compared to that of the previous week’s price while the price of all kinds of vegetables has been stable. At the Palassey, and New Market kitchen markets, a pair of medium-sized Hilsa was sold for Tk 1300-1500 on ... Read more
Quizzical export
Hilsa Tk 900/kg at market, Tk 480/kg for export Hilsa has increasingly become elusive and is beyond reach of the common people for its high prices, but it was being exported to India for less than half the local market price before a ban was slapped on its overseas sales on Tuesday. The exporting price ... Read more
Hilsa goes out of reach in city kitchen market
Market Review Hilsa goes out of reach in city kitchen market Price of Hilsa went out of reach for the middle class and low income people on Friday in the city’s kitchen markets just a day before the biggest Bangali festival –Pahela Baishakh. A one-kg Hilsa was sold for Tk 2000-2500 at Palassey and New ... Read more
Take a hilsa, get marbles free!
It would have been funny but for the deplorable business practice: buy a hilsa, get marbles free. That, however, is precisely what happened on Tuesday to one Mashreful Islam Saikat, a student of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and vice-president of the Chhatra Kalyan Parishad (students’ union). While buying his morning quota of four fish from ... Read more