Some popular species of fishes specially Ruhi, Katla, Mrigel and Kaliboush released record quantity of eggs on Thursday night in the Halda river, the lone natural fish breeding sanctuary in the country.
These fish usually release eggs between March and June, said experts.聽 Although mother fishes took long time to release eggs this year, the quantity is sufficient.
Halda expert Monjuril Kibria told BSS that the fry-collectors collected huge quantity of eggs in the early hours of Friday using sufficient boats.
The Halda river is the only natural breeding ground in the south Asia where sweet water species like these fishes release their eggs during a certain period of the monsoon for over a century.
Egg collector Kamal Uddin Sawdagor said that they collected a large number of eggs from Thursday night to Friday afternoon.
鈥榃e collected 3-4 kg of eggs per person. We hoped that we could collect more eggs,鈥� he added.
Monjuril Kibria said that hundreds of boats were collecting eggs in different area of Halda river under Hathazari and Raozan upazila of the district.聽 Besides, upazila administration, naval police and fisheries office were also present there.
