NAMKHANA: Poverty-stricken villagers in the Sundarbans area have been munching on the hilsa for breakfast, lunch and dinner after tonnes of Bengal's favourite fish were netted of a size that ...

Justifying the ban, the authorities concerned said the July-August period is the breeding season for most of the fish available in the rivers. Sources at the Forest Department said 52 percent area of ...

The Forest Department has imposed a three-month ban on all entry into the Sundarbans to protect the biodiversity of the forest.

On May 31, the Forest Department announced a three-month ban on tourism and fishing in the Sundarbans starting from June 1. These three months are the breeding season for most species of fish and ...

The Forest Department has banned travel to the Sundarbans and fishing from all its rivers and canals for the next three months, starting tomorrow. The decision was made to allow the safe breeding ...

On January 30, the Indian Sundarban was accorded the status of ... crab, molluscs and fish. The Ramsar Information Sheet lists fishing and harvesting of aquatic resources as a “high impact ...

But fishermen still risk it for the best crabs and fish.” And that’s the thing about the Sundarbans—it’s a place where nature ...

Dublar Char and several other areas in the Sundarbans are now buzzing with activities as a large number of fishermen are engaged in drying fishes after netting them from the sea. Around 90 species ...

two otters wait to catch fish in a river in southern Bangladesh. As the animals squeak in the water, fishermen lower a net into the river, in the heart of the Sundarbans, the world’s largest ...