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CHATTOGRAM, May 30, 2025 (BSS)- 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. 
Although mother fishes took long time to release eggs this year, the quantity 
is sufficient.
Halda expert Dr 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. 

"We collected 3-4 kg of eggs per person. We hoped that we could collect more 
eggs," he added.

 Dr Monjuril Kibria said that hundreds of boats were collecting eggs in 
different area of Halda river under Hathazari and Raozan upazila of the 
district.  Besides, upazila administration, naval police and fisheries office 
were also present there.