Hilsa catching, selling and transportation resumed on Saturday after a government ban for 22 days. A total of 600 maunds of Hilsa came to Chandpur's Bara Station Fish Ghat, the biggest Hilsa market of ...

The price of hilsa continues to soar in local markets, despite a government ban on exports to India this year. Fishermen and traders attribute the high prices to a scarcity of fish in the sea, ...

At Khilgaon Railgate kitchen market, vendors were asking Tk 3,700 to Tk 4,000 per kilogram for hilsa on Thursday evening. Hilsa weighing 800–900 grams were priced between Tk 2,800 and Tk 3,000 per kg, ...

Hilsa or Ilish or Tenualosa ilisha is possibly the most popular fish from Bengal. Related to the Herring family, the fish is not only consumed in the Indian subcontinent, but also extensively consumed ...

On the corner of a crowded and noisy floor, a bespectacled man was calling out bids for a basket of Hilsa fish. He repeated the prices quoted by traders in a loud, rhythmic tone: "1,400-1,420-1,450…" ...

Prasanjit Mandal, 30, lives in Farakka, West Bengal, and his traditional line of work is fishing. However, these days, he also drives an autorickshaw to make a living. At times, he goes fishing with ...

The Md Yunus government in Bangladesh may have chosen to honour the commitment of culinary tradition and issue a notification to export hilsa to India ahead of the festive season, but fish importers ...

Kolkata's hilsa lovers are turning to Myanmar and Gujarat varieties as doubts rise over the arrival of the prized Padma hilsa from Bangladesh due to strained political relations. While frozen Myanmar ...

Kolkata: Banned khoka ilish or juvenile hilsa weighing 150-250 gm was sold with impunity in Kolkata markets. Customers happily lapped them up on the day of ‘Ranna Puja’ that is celebrated on Bhadra ...

For every Bengali child, Maach Bhaat is not a phrase; it’s practically a prophecy. If you grew up in Bengal, fish was never “just food,” it was the family’s love language. And if you were me, it would ...

Workers process Hilsa fish at a fish landing station in Patuakhali, Bangladesh, Aug. 24, 2024. Bangladeshi fishermen in Patuakhali has become busy with hilsa recently after a 65-day fishing ban period ...

For decades fishermen in Myanmar have caught and sold the hilsa fish, but overfishing and poor regulation is taking a terrible toll, as the BBC's Ko Ko Aung reports. "We have been catching hilsa for ...