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Cover Photo

Bangladesh is a riverine country. The Bay of Bengal is located in the southern part of Bangladesh. That is why the main food of people of Bangladesh is fish. The fishermen of this country collect the fish and sell it in the market and dry it to preserve the fish. Today I will present to you how the fish or marine fish are dried and processed in the coastal areas of our country. As you must have guessed from my cover photo, this is actually a huge fish drying factory. It is the largest fish drying area in Bangladesh.

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Depending on the size and type of fish, they are dried in different ways. Sea eel, shuri This species of fish is cut from tail to head and hung vertically on bamboo to dry. Once these fish are dried, there is no further effort required. In the morning, it has to be shaken once in the hot sun and picked up again in the evening. Such fishes take three to four days to dry.

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Collecting dried fish

Some houses are built and long lofts are built on the beach to store fish. These tall bamboo lofts on the seashore are built so that the fish can be dried here quickly. There is no special way to dry them. Relatively small fish are spread on this platform. The fish begin to dry in the hot sun on the beach. Besides, the people who are in charge of supervising them turn the fish back and forth twice a day so that they can be dried from both sides. Most of the time poa, roopchanda fish are dried here. After drying the fishes are taken in bamboo baskets and weighed for marketing.

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Dried fish market

The best way to preserve fish is to dry them. The overall fish availability increases during different seasons due to which sufficient quantities are caught from mid-sea which cannot be preserved for long in fresh condition so they are dried. Once dried, the fish are marketed directly. Different fish are sold in different ways. Some fish are sold as dried pieces, some dried by weight. Some unscrupulous traders sometimes add various chemicals to preserve dried fish for long years, which is a punishable offense under law.Below I am showing the names of some shutki fish, local price and price converted to Steem

Dried Fish	Local Price (Per Kg)	Steem price
Churi	700-1000 BDT	35-50
Rupchanda	1500-2000 BDT	75-100
Sea eel	1600-1800 BDT	80-90
Big shrimp	1700-2000 BDT	85-100
Laitta	800 BDT	40
Rita	1100 BDT	55
kachki	850 BDT	42.5
Coral Large	2800 BDT	140
Coral Small	1800 BDT	90
King Fish	2700 BDT	135

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Marine Fish

Now I will write with you about some fresh coastal fish that I found in a local fish market. At first I don't know the names of the two fish I presented. Some time ago when I went to the biggest fish market in our country I knew the price of these fish but I can't remember at the moment. These marine fishes seem like hilsa fish to me.

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Black Rupchanda

You must have recognized this fish. Especially those who like to eat Roopchanda. It is a species of roupchanda known as black roupchandra. Also below I present some pictures of marine fishes.

	Sea kaikka
	Marine fishes
	eel
	Shripm
	Eel
	Crabs

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