A 22-day fishing ban on Hilsa, imposed to protect the fish during its peak breeding season has ended News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government lifted a 22-day ban on catching, selling, and transporting Hilsa on Friday. This meant that Hilsa could be caught, sold, and moved again on Saturday. When different kinds of fish caught ... Read more
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Ban on catching, selling hilsa from October 7-28
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government is going to impose a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting of hilsa from October 7 across the country to protect safe spawning of the fish during its peak breeding period. This information was disclosed in a notification issued by the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock today ... Read more
Ban on catching hilsa to end at midnight after 2 months
The ban on catching hilsa will be lifted at midnight today after two months. The fisheries department said due to the two-month ban, it will be possible to collect the desired target of 6 lakh tonnes of hilsa fish this time, reports our Barishal correspondent. However, many fishermen said they are not interested in going to ... Read more
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