Fishermen delighted to release huge fish spawn in Halda River
Chattogram Bureau with Raozan Correspondent :
The indigenous fishermen of the Halda River bank expressed immense pleasure with happy mood this year by catching record quantity of fish spawn this season from the Halda river on April 19 and 20 last.
Fishermen sources said they have collected more than desired quantities of fish eggs this season than earlier.
Mother fishes of indigenous species have released a huge quantity of pawn in the Halda River, the only natural fish breeding sanctuary of Asia , early yesterday. According to experts, this is the first ever this year as these fishes usually release spawn during March-June period of the monsoon.
After a long wait, fisheries experts and experienced fry-collectors observed that mother fishes released sufficient amount of eggs in the river. Fishermen have collected these eggs of some very popular species of fish which are locally known as Rui, Katla, Mrigel and Kaliboush.
Fisherman Kamal Uddin Swdagor said the fish cultivators collected a satisfactory quantity of eggs after mother fishes started releasing those from early Friday He informed that around 1,200 fishermen with 300 boats began collecting eggs since morning of Friday .
“Protecting man-made disaster like indiscriminate hunting of mother fishes (egg carrying fishes) and river pollution and favorable weather condition are the major causes of huge amount of egg release of spawn by the major carps this year,” said Halda expert Prof Monjurul Kibria of Zoology Department at Chattogram University, who has been carrying out massive research works on unique character of this river and its fish spawning.
The River Halda as the saying goes has for over a century been spawning of such category of fishes and this river is the only natural breeding ground in the world where these species of fish release their eggs at a certain period of the monsoon and fry-collectors collect those spawn through a unique method to sell them among the fish farmers.
Our Raozan Correspondent told that the fishermen deployed egg catching nets by about 400 boats beginning from Urkirchar point of Raozan upazila to Garduara of Hathazari via south Madarsha, Ankurigona about 15 kilometers long area of Halda River. Our correspondent said every boat owner managed to collect 10 to 12 tubs of fish spawn and they are much pleased for desired collections of spawn. Our correspondent sources said about 23000 kgs of fish spawn were collected by the fishermen on Friday and Saturday .
The indigenous fishermen of the Halda River bank expressed immense pleasure with happy mood this year by catching record quantity of fish spawn this season from the Halda river on April 19 and 20 last.
Fishermen sources said they have collected more than desired quantities of fish eggs this season than earlier.
Mother fishes of indigenous species have released a huge quantity of pawn in the Halda River, the only natural fish breeding sanctuary of Asia , early yesterday. According to experts, this is the first ever this year as these fishes usually release spawn during March-June period of the monsoon.
After a long wait, fisheries experts and experienced fry-collectors observed that mother fishes released sufficient amount of eggs in the river. Fishermen have collected these eggs of some very popular species of fish which are locally known as Rui, Katla, Mrigel and Kaliboush.
Fisherman Kamal Uddin Swdagor said the fish cultivators collected a satisfactory quantity of eggs after mother fishes started releasing those from early Friday He informed that around 1,200 fishermen with 300 boats began collecting eggs since morning of Friday .
“Protecting man-made disaster like indiscriminate hunting of mother fishes (egg carrying fishes) and river pollution and favorable weather condition are the major causes of huge amount of egg release of spawn by the major carps this year,” said Halda expert Prof Monjurul Kibria of Zoology Department at Chattogram University, who has been carrying out massive research works on unique character of this river and its fish spawning.
The River Halda as the saying goes has for over a century been spawning of such category of fishes and this river is the only natural breeding ground in the world where these species of fish release their eggs at a certain period of the monsoon and fry-collectors collect those spawn through a unique method to sell them among the fish farmers.
Our Raozan Correspondent told that the fishermen deployed egg catching nets by about 400 boats beginning from Urkirchar point of Raozan upazila to Garduara of Hathazari via south Madarsha, Ankurigona about 15 kilometers long area of Halda River. Our correspondent said every boat owner managed to collect 10 to 12 tubs of fish spawn and they are much pleased for desired collections of spawn. Our correspondent sources said about 23000 kgs of fish spawn were collected by the fishermen on Friday and Saturday .