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Bangladesh: Catching fish by a Small Boy

Fishing is someone’s favorite hobby. But it is limited among some of man who was not live in city of town. But in the village it is common for every man. There is no man who does not know how to catch the fish. In that area it is common work for everyone. It is one of the works in their daily routine.

It was the month of January and the time was 2:30PM. Please look at this boy, the boy is not catching fish in a swamp. The name of the boy is Rassel, read in class four and his father is a day-laborer. Fishing is not his hobby. It is his daily work. His mother asked her to go to catch fish for their lunch. For this he came for fishing their. He is fishing with different kinds of net. The net is triangle that was made by three bamboo stick and a cloth like curtain.

 About Bangladeshi fish sector world bank wrote:

• Bangladesh is blessed with rich and diverse natural resources for fisheries. About 34 percent of the country's area is under water almost six months each year. Bangladesh has extensive riverine systems, as well as productive coastal and marine fishing grounds. Reflecting this wealth, the fisheries sector makes important contributions to income, employment, nutrition, and foreign exchange earnings. It generates about 3.5 percent of total gross domestic product (GDP), mainly from inland fisheries. The sector employs about 1.5 million full-time professional fishermen and about 11 million part-time, mainly subsistence fishermen, 


• whose numbers peak in the June-October flood season. Altogether, these fishermen and their families represent about 50 percent of Bangladesh's population. Fish supply approximately 80 percent of the animal protein and 7 percent of the total protein intake in the average Bangladeshi diet. For subsistence fishermen and their families, the fish they catch is often their only source of protein and essential minerals. About 11 percent of export earnings comes from fishing, chiefly from shrimp raised in brackish ponds.

He came to catch small shrimp to there. After seeing him I went there and look that the boy was pushing his net under water. After sometime he pulled his net and I saw that there was some small shrimp and also different kinds of small fish we called it Rui.


Caritas Bangladesh has since 1980 assisted thousands of fishermen to achieve self-sufficiency through the supply of fish fry and its microcredit and advocacy programs.

“I took a fisheries loan from Caritas and also obtained fish fry,” said Iqbal Hossain, a Muslim fisherman from the northwestern Rajshahi district.
“The interest rate is a manageable 6 percent and I’m sure to make a good profit from my small fishing business,” he said.
Hossain was attending a local Caritas Rajshashi event to mark National Fisheries Week organized by the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock.

Hundreds of fishermen joined the closing ceremony for the cultural and awareness-raising program, which was also attended by Member of Parliament Fazle Hossain Badsha and local Caritas officials.
“The difference between Caritas and private hatcheries is that Caritas produces and sells fresh fry, which is very important for fish cultivation,” said Mohammad Harun, 31, another Muslim fisherman.
“Moreover, it is cheaper, so every year I obtain fry from the Caritas hatchery here.”
Shanti Mondol thanked Caritas for helping her with microcredit.

“I’ve changed the fortune of my family through fish cultivation and the Caritas loan was a great help indeed. We’re leading a happy life,” said the 35-year-old Hindu woman.
Caritas launched its fisheries project in Rajshahi in 1987, said Caritas Rajshahi Education and Development officer Suklesh George Costa.
The hatchery, set up in 1994, was the first modern hatchery in the region, one of seven with Caritas fisheries projects.
“Now there is one modern hatchery in every Caritas working area.