The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection destroyed about 350 kg of rotten hilsa at Chandpur’s Boro Station wholesale fish market on Wednesday.
The rotten fish were seized from a trawler that came from Monpura in Bhola.
Officials conducted the drive in the afternoon with support from the Bangladesh Army.
Mohammad Abdullah Al Imran, assistant director of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection in Chandpur, led the operation.
He told UNB that they searched several trawlers and found a large amount of rotten hilsa in one of them.
Later, the seized fish were buried in the ground.
For storing rotten fish, trawler owner Helal Khan was fined Tk 1 lakh and the fine was paid by fish trader Mostafa Kamal on his behalf.
Additionally, other fish traders at the market were warned not to keep or sell spoiled fish.
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A day earlier, officials seized a large amount of rotten hilsa in a separate drive in the same area and fined one trader Tk 6,000.
Assistant District Fisheries Officer Farhana Akter Ruma, leaders of the Chandpur Fish Traders’ Cooperative Association were present during the drive.