The eight-month ban aims to boost hilsa production and ensure the sustainable conservation of the species

Shankar Dey, a mid-ranking government officer in south Kolkata’s Deshopriya Park locality, makes it a point to browse the nearby Lake Market early every morning in search of quality fish.

Hilsa, our national fish, has become an inseparable part of Pahela Baishakh (Bangla New Year) celebrations, but experts say the practice has no roots in a thousand years of Bengali tradition.

THOUGH the government amended the Protection and Conservation of Fish Act (1950) in the year 2002 to ban the manufacture and

Law enforcers seize1,250 kilogrammes of Hilsa fry in Chandpur district amid a conservation campaign to put a stop to catching of the baby fishes.