Jumbangla Desk: Three large hilsa weighing six and a half kilograms were caught in the padma river in Goland upazila of Rajbari in the net of a fisherman named Abdul Hai Haldar. It is reported that an expatriate buyer of Bogra bought three fish for 26 thousand taka.

Last Wednesday (October 2) afternoon, the buyer of Bogra bought three fish online at Daulatdia Ghat. Daulatdia ghat fish traders gave this information yesterday Saturday (October 5).

It is known that last Wednesday at noon, fisherman Abdul Hai Halder went fishing in the Padma river with his team. In the afternoon, they caught three large-sized hilsa in their nets. In the evening, they took the fish to No. 5 ferry ghat of Daulatdia and weighed three fish at 6 kg 500 grams. Later, Ferighat fish merchant Emperor Shahjahan bought the fish directly from Sheikh Abdul Hai at the rate of 3 thousand 800 taka per kg for 24 thousand 700 taka.

Samrat Shahjahan Sheikh, the owner of Shakil-Sohan fisheries, said that there is a lot of demand for large hilsa from Padma. Buyers are also good. In the evening, fisherman Abdul Hai Haldar brought three fish to Ferry Ghat No. 5 area of ​​Daulatdia. Later, when I posted a picture of fish on my Facebook page, after a while a London expatriate brother contacted me on Facebook and bought three fish for his relatives in Bogra at the rate of 4 thousand taka per kg for a total of 26 thousand taka. Later I sent the fish to his house in three Boguras with my men.

Rajbari District Fisheries Officer (Acting) and Sadar Upazila Senior Fisheries Officer Mostafa Al Rajeeb said that hilsa fish weighing two kilograms is usually less common. Now often in Daulatdia large size hilsa fish are caught in fishermen's nets. Fishermen are profiting by selling these fishes.