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National fisheries week begins July 21
DHAKA, July 16, 2020 (BSS) – The “National Fisheries Week-2020” is going to be observed across the country from July 21 to July 27 aiming at creating public awareness on the protection and development of the fisheries resources.
With the theme “Machh Utpadan Briddhi Kori, Shukhi Samriddha Desh Gori (Let us increase fish production and build a happy and prosperous country)”, the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry has finalized programmes at the central and district and upazila levels to observe the week, said a press release here today.
Committees have been formed at the field level, including at districts, hill districts and upazilas, to observe the week.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the fisheries week formally by releasing fish fries in the lake at Ganabhaban at 10.30am on July 22.
As per the central programme, the important road islands in the capital city will be decorated with banners and festoons on the first day of the week. On the same day, contributions and achievements of the Bangladesh government in the country’s fisheries sector will be screened as scroll and TVC through digital displays set up at various traffic signals and public places in the divisional cities, including the capital.
On the second day of the week, supplements will be published in different national dailies. President M Abdul Hamid will release fish fries in the lake of Bangabhaban on the third day of the week while fish fries will be released in ponds and lakes of different universities, ponds of Ramakrishna Mission and Eden Mohila College in the city and water bodies of Bangladesh Public Administration Training Center (BPATC) in Savar on the same day.
Simultaneously, on the third day, Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute will distribute fish germplasm among the hatchery owners and entrepreneurs free of cost to protect the fish fries and endangered fish.
On the fifth day of the week, Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chawdhury will release fish fries in the lake of the JS while documentaries on the special achievements of the present government in the fisheries sector will be screened at various places in the capital city on the same day.
On the sixth day of the week, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam and South City Corporation Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh will release fish fries at Sangam Lake in Uttara and Dhanmondi Lake respectively.
On the last day of the central program, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim will address a view exchange meeting with the officials of the Fisheries Department and the divisional fisheries officers through videoconferencing and declare the end of the weeklong programme.
Besides, the weeklong district and upazila level programmes, marking the National Fisheries Week, will include carrying out public awareness campaigns through miking, pasting banners and festoons, exhibiting documentaries on the progress and achievements of the present government in the fisheries sector, carrying out anti-harmful chemical application campaigns, conducting mobile courts to implement fisheries laws, giving suggestions to the farmers for fish farming and distributing fish farming materials among the farmers.
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