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Second whale carcass washes ashore
Experts think large ships might have fatally injured them
A second whale carcass washed ashore at Himchhari beach in Cox s Bazar yesterday, a day after the first one.
Researchers and experts suggest that large ships plying the sea route beyond Bangladesh s exclusive economic zone might have caused injuries to the marine mammals resulting in their death.
The female whale s carcass, which washed ashore yesterday, had a six feet-deep injury to its back, said Dr Shafikur Rahman, chief scientific officer of Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute in Cox s Bazar.
He assumed that large mother ships which ply the route beyond Bangladesh s exclusive economic zone injured the whales.
If successful, the initiative is expected to breathe life back into the ailing industry. One of our main challenges is the shortage of raw materials. We will get raw materials for processing in my factory if our pilot farming is successful, said Shyamal Das, managing director of MU Seafoods.
MU Seafoods partnered with Sushilan, a local non-government organisation, in 2019 to begin the experiment on vannamei farming.
The Department of Fisheries (DoF) gave the go-ahead to culture whiteleg shrimp in the southwestern division of Khulna, a major farming region for export-oriented shrimp, after years of concerns that foreign species may have a negative impact on their native counterparts such as black tiger shrimp.
19th February, 2021 11:17:13
The ancient axiom ‘fish and rice make a Bengali’ has lost relevance to a large extent because the verities of our indigenous freshwater fish that used tickle the taste buds of Bengalis in every walk of life is shrinking fast. Freshwater fish species are increasingly becoming rare or extinct because of adverse impacts of climate change, water pollution, shrinking water bodies, over fishing and widespread use of pesticides in agriculture. Reportedly, roughly 25 per cent of the freshwater fish species in Bangladesh are at risk of extinction. And it is for sure that some species have already gone extinct.
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