Kolkata: The scarcity of Hilsa in the waters of India has spawned smuggling from the delicacy that is sought after by neighboring Bangladesh.
With most of his fans cannot satisfy their hunger for Hilsa this year due to poor availability, smuggling fish take more than Rs 3,000 kg in the city.
Hilsa smuggle newly infected with a weight of about 2kg is the pleasure of gastronomy where even the average collaboration is ready to splurge even if that means cutting down the food bill that month.
“We are often confused to see customers who cannot take Hils with a weight of more than 2 kg, pay more than Rs 6,000 for that.
Of course, the taste is guaranteed,” said the fish vendor on the lake market.
Sunirmal Adhikari, a teacher who lives in Kuniagotat, is one of Hilsa’s lover.
He could not resist the temptation of bringing home 1.5 kg fish, spending mini wealth by fully knowing that he had to survive with eggs and vegetarian food for the rest of this month.
“I just can’t hold it back.
Just seeing silvery Hilsa made me get out saliva.
I’m sure it will be heavenly,” Adhikari told Ti in a city market.
According to vendors, Hilsa is largely smuggled through the border of the Angrai River and Hakimpur.
Several amounts of entry through the Hili border in North Bengal.
Because exports were banned by Bangladesh, the fish was hidden under other varieties on the ship to avoid enforcement authorities on both sides.
Recently, BSF grabbed Hilsa’s large cache at the border checkpoint.
Hilsa is a madness on both sides of the border that has become a useful tool of diplomacy between the two countries.
Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina prohibits the exports of Hilsa to India after the Bengal government opposes the Teesta Curtain’s pact for the fear that it will dry the river in North Bengal.
Since the ban, the availability of Hilsa in the city market has declined sharply and the supply of Bangladesh varieties is smattered.
“This year, smuggled fish have hit the city market at the end of the season Hilsa.
The supply was quite stable for the past six seven days and flying fish from the basket,” said Bablu Naskar, fish vendor in the lake market.
Minister of Fisheries Bengal Akhil Giri admitted that some Hilsa from Bangladesh “came to the city market” even though it was far less than what the request was.
According to them in fish trade, it is their own greed that has led to the drying of Hilsa catches in Ganga for a certain period of time.
“We must be blamed for this difficulty.
Our fishermen did not obey the prohibition of the government and the bright Hilsa Juvenile carelessly Hilsa teens to recover fuel costs.
But this is suicide, “said Bijon Maity, Secretary of the Kakdwip Fishermen Association.
Bangladesh instead puts a big boost on fish conservation and captures Hilsa or fishing during the period of breeding is issued with a strict punishment.