Many unemployed youths have changed their fortunes by cultivating fish in floating cage in Bhola district. Many people are becoming more and more interested in this type of fish farming as it is more profitable to cultivate fish with less capital. The number of fish farmers in the district is increasing day by day. As a result, besides unemployment, fish production is increasing in the district.
According to the sources, about one thousand landless fish farmers are cultivating fish in the open water of rivers and canals in different upazilas including Char Semaiya, Veduria, Velumia and Dhania in the district headquarters. To make fish in this way, it costs 10 to 12 thousand Tk to make each floating cage with GI pipe and drum. Where different species of fish including tilapia, pangas, sarputi and carp fishes are cultivated.
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In 2018, after the training of fish farming in the floating cages for free from public development, the non-government organization started fish farming and fish is being sold from 25 to 30 thousand Tk per cage twice a year. The number of fish farmers in this floating cage system is increasing as there is more profit in this method with less capital.
A floating method fish farmer Rahim, Kabir, Hossain said, they started fish farming in this floating method with training 4 years ago. The profit is 25 to 30 thousand Tk per Cage. They are having generous profit due to this sort of fish farming.
Humayun said, everyone around his house are making good profit by farming fish in this way. So from this year he also started fish farming in 5 cages.
Anisur Rahman Tipu, assistant director of Grameen Jan Unnayan Sangstha, said helpless unemployed youths living in the embankment area were trained in floating fish farming. At the end of the training, he made a floating cage for 400 youths and gave them 2,000 tilapia fry. They are all good at fish farming in this way and many unemployed youth are getting interested in fish farming.
