11 hatcheries closed in Cox's Bazar
Our Correspondent, Cox's Bazar
Some 11 hatcheries in Cox's Bazar have been closed due to acute shortage of mother shrimps, local hatchery owners told a press conference here yesterday.They also said unplanned fishing in the Bay is a major cause for the crisis. They lamented that the authorities concerned are indifferent to checking the menace. There is no official policy regarding catching of mother shrimp in the Bay, said Yunus Chowdhury, vice-chairman of Cox's Bazar Shrimp Hatchery Owners Association. He also said sea fish resources are likely to exhaust soon unless the indiscriminate catching of fish is stopped. Shrimp is the second largest export item of the country after ready-made garments.
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