A giant Baghair fish weighing around 60kg went up for sale in Sylhet city's Lalbazar on Sunday afternoon. The fish was netted from the River Kushiyara in Fenchuganj upazila of Sylhet district on Saturday night.  Many curious people gathered to see the rare-breed fish and take a photo of it. Mujibur Rahman, a fish trader at Lalbazar market, said he bought the giant Baghair fish from Fenchuganj in the morning. Also read: Marine fisheries policy designed for proper sea fish production Many customers had been urging the trader to cut the fish into pieces and sell it at a fixed per kg price. Mujibur said, "It is less likely that someone would buy the whole fish. I would cut it into pieces on Monday if the expected price of the fish is not attained." The trader expects to earn more than Tk1 lakh from selling the fish pieces. Earlier, per kg Baghair fish was sold for Tk2,000 to Tk2,500 in Lalbazar. Also read: After lockdown blues, dried fish industry buzzing again Baghair, which is available in freshwaters of Bangladesh, India, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sumatra, Borneo and Java, is an endangered fish. The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the species in its Red Data as one of the "critically endangered" freshwater fishes of Bangladesh.

Operating a fleet of mobile stalls across the country, the Fisheries and Livestock Ministry raked in Tk 47 crore on Thursday selling fish and poultry products purchased  from  farmers and fish cultures who couldn’t bring their goods to market amid the lockdown imposed in the face of the global coronavirus pandemic.