Sea Fish of Bangladesh

 Brown Shrimp   Tiger Shrimp (Head On)  Black Shrimp (Kiji) 

Bangladesh produces and exports a wide range of  fishes, shrimps, sea fish and other frozen food products. These may be classified into ten broad categories as noted below :                                                 Sea Going Trawler for HILSA  fish catching                                                        Marine Shrimp ( Head on Tiger )                                               Marine Shrimp ( Head Less Tiger )                                           ...

Sea Resources Limited and Cosmos Trawl (part of Hampidjan Group), have signed an agreement to enter the 3rd phase of their Danida supported B2B project.  The new company is based at Ichanagar /Sardarghat in Chittagong, headed by Mr. Lars Jensen (Cosmos) as Managing Director. Cosmos Chief Technical Advisor Mr. Eiríkur H. Sigurgeirsson (stationed in Chittagong since January 2010), he looks after day-to-day affairs. And Mr. A. Rouf Chowdhury is the Chairman of the venture. On April 12th 2010 a ceremony of raising the ROOFTREE of the new SRL Cosmos Trawl Ltd. netloft was held. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Mr. Søren Pind, Chittagong City Corporation Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Danish Ambassador Mr. Einar H Jensen and Mr. Ib Albertsen of The Danish International Investment Funds (IFU) were present in the ceremony. On 26th June 2010 SRL Cosmos Trawl Ltd. organised a Seminar & Workshop in Chittagong to highlight latest news and developments about modern fishing...

The forests of Bangladesh cover about 10% of the country and fall distinctly into three regional varieties: the forest in the tidal zones along the coast, mostly Sundarbans (often mangrove but sometimes hardwood); the forest of Sal trees (hardwood) around Dhaka, Tangail and Mymensingh; and the forests of tropical and subtropical evergreens in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and parts of Sylhet. Half of the remaining forest is in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and a further quarter in the Sundarbans, with the rest scattered in small pockets throughout the country. Even away from the forests, Bangladesh is a land of trees. Lining the old Grand Trunk Road in the west are huge rain trees, and every village is an arboreal oasis, often with spectacular Banyan or Ashot trees. The red Silk-cotton or Kapok tree is easily spotted throughout the countryside in February and March, when it loses its leaves and sprouts a myriad of red blossoms. Teak was introduced to the Hill Tracts in the last century, an...

What is Quality Index Method QIM (QIM) ? Quality Index Method QIM is an accurate and objective method for the determination of fish freshness. It is a promising method in assessing the freshness of fish in a rapid and reliable way. It is expected to become the leading reference method for the assessment of fresh fish within the European community in the future. As the QIM method has been developed and proved to be a quality assessment method that is more finely tuned than other grading methods used today, it is considered a valuable tool that may replace other methods. Further, it is being developed for more and more specific fish species, increasing its power as an overall assessment method. The QIM-Eurofish Alliance The determination of the exact QIM calibration scale must be worked out with extreme precision and must be properly validated. A quality assurance must thus be observed for the QIM method as such. For this reason the directors of the Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Re...

There is a proverb in Bangladesh that "Gola bhora Dhan, pukur bhora mach" meaning wicker corn-bin full of paddy and ponds full of fish, but the proverb is going to be untrue as many rivers of the country are vanishing. Hilsa locally known as ilish, the fish has been designated as the national fish of Bangladesh. Body length may reach up to 60 cm, but commonly found 35 to 40 cm. A large-sized hilsa weighs about 2.75 kg. Females are usually larger than males. The hilsa is known to be a fast swimmer and matured in one to two years. Hilsa , one of the most important tropical fish, lives in the sea for most of its life, but migrates at least 1,000 km up in some river system for spawning. The fish is found in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Vietnam Sea and China Sea. The riverine habitat covers the Satil Arab, and the Tigris and Euphrates of Iran and Iraq, the Indus of Pakistan, the rivers of Eastern and Western India, the Irrawaddy of Myanmar, and the P...

Bangladesh has a coastline 480 km long and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is about 322 km (200 miles) seaward from the base line. The Bay of Bengal offers a potential sources of fisheries for Bangladesh although most its vast resources yet remain unexplored. In the Bay, a total of 490 species of fish belonging to 133 families were recorded of which 65 species are of commercial importance. The stock and resources still remains unexplored due to lack of appropriate survey by competent authority.