Three Fish Weighing 72kg Caught in Rajbari's Padma Sold for Tk 160,000 to Qatar Expatriate

Two katla and one baghair fish caught in a fisherman's net in the Padma River in Rajbari have been sold for Tk 160,000. The three fish weighed 72kg in total.

The fish were caught at dawn on Monday (2 November) in the net of fisherman Seken Halder at the confluence of the Padma and Jamuna, not far from the Daulatdia ferry terminal, according to local fish trader Samrat Shahjahan Sheikh.

Samrat Shahjahan Sheikh, a fish trader at Daulatdia's No. 5 ferry terminal, said fisherman Seken Halder went out on the Padma with his team late at night and cast his net at the Padma-Jamuna confluence. When they hauled the net in, they found two large katla and one baghair trapped in it.

In the morning the three fish were brought to the Daulatdia fish wholesale market and weighed. The baghair weighed 25kg, one katla weighed 25kg and the other katla weighed 22kg.

At an open auction at the market, a wholesaler bought the two katla at Tk 2,300 per kg for a total of Tk 108,100 and the baghair at Tk 1,600 per kg for Tk 40,000.

Later, a Qatar expatriate bought the two katla from the market at Tk 2,500 per kg for Tk 117,500 and the baghair at Tk 1,700 per kg for Tk 42,000.