Hilsa fishing and sale banned from tonight, fishermen worried
                Pradeep Kumar Roy, Special Correspondent: All types of fishing, including hilsa, have been banned in the Padma-Meghna for 22 days. The ban will continue from midnight on Saturday (October 12) to November 3. During this period, transportation, buying, selling, storing and exchanging hilsa will be banned nationwide. At the same time, a campaign to preserve mother hilsa will be implemented. According to relevant sources, fishermen will not be able to enter the river during the ban in the 100-kilometer area from Shatanal of the Meghna River to Char Alexander via Raipur in Laxmipur. Anyone who catches and sells hilsa during this period will be punished with a maximum of two years of rigorous imprisonment or a fine of up to five thousand taka, or both. Meanwhile, more than half a million fishermen on the banks of the Padma-Meghna have been caught fishing in nets and boats…            
                            
                    
 
                         
				