Lika Chakma, 37, sways she can still remember her childhood days when the springs in the Digholchari Hajachara area of eastern Bangladesh, where she grew up, flowed year-round. These perennial water bodies supported not only the lives and livelihoods of the communities in the region, but also diverse fish and
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Fish, meat, eggs to be sold at affordable prices ahead of Ramadan
Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdur Rahman on Wednesday said fish, meat, and eggs will be sold at affordable prices a week before the start of Ramadan for low-income people. He said this while talking to reporters at the Secretariat in the capital on Wednesday. This programme will start a few days before
Plastics could acidify the ocean, study says
The trillions of pieces of plastic currently roving through the global ocean are known to be an assault on life. Turtles get tangled up in discarded plastic fishing nets. Whales open their mouths to eat and unwittingly fill their stomachs with shopping bags. Filter-feeding fish and other organisms gobble up
Satkhira flood washes away Tk8.28cr worth of fish, crab, shrimp
Satkhira district Department of Fisheries estimated a loss worth Tk 8.28 crore as fish, crab, and shrimp on 1,655 hectares got flooded after the protection dam of Kholpetua river broke partially. The 150 feet embankment, built for the protection of coastal areas collapsed due to high tide on July 14,