Fish production boost up by 50pc in 11-yrs: PM tells JS
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday Bangladesh has attained self-sufficiency in fish boosting up the production by over 50 percent in last 11 years following the effective and time befitting measures of her government.
“New technologies of fish farming and production of seed fishes have been invented by the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute to protect 25 species of freshwater fishes from extinction,” she said.
The Premier revealed this in Parliament this morning in replying to a tabled question from the treasury bench lawmaker Ali Azam of Bhola-2.
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury chaired the sitting of the eleventh session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad.