Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profile for Bangladesh
- aquatic species caught by country or area, by species items, by
FAO major fishing areas, and year, for all commercial, industrial,
recreational and subsistence purposes. The harvest from mariculture,
aquaculture and other kinds of fish farming is also included.
Bangladesh
Dept. of Fisheries - Department of Fisheries. Ministry of
Fisheries & Livestock Bangladesh.
Export Promotion
Bureau (EPB) of Bangladesh is an autonomous organization
entrusted with promotion of exports from Bangladesh . It is mainly
responsible for policy and programme measures for promotion of
exports, coordination of export development efforts at various
levels, coordination and monitoring of national export programmes
and progress, exploration of markets abroad, organization of
participation in international Fairs and export fairs abroad.
FISH & SEAFOOD IN
BANGLADESH
Bangladesh produces and exports a wide range of fishes, shrimps,
seafood and other frozen food products. These may be classified into
ten broad categories as noted below:
• Frozen Shrimp
& Prawn
• Frozen Fishes
• Fresh &
Chilled Fish
• Frozen Fillets
& Steaks of Fishes, Sharks,
Skates & Rays
& Crushed Shells
• Shark fins &
Fish Maws.
• Salted and
dehydrated Fishes
• Dry Fish
• Live Crabs &
Tortoises
• Fish meals
• Value added
Fish & Shrimp Products.
Product Reflection
A. Frozen
Shrimp & Prawn
¨ Name
of the Products : Fresh water headless, shell-on tail-on (FWSO), Sea
water headless shell-on tail-on (SWSO) Peeled and Deveined (P&D),
Peeled and un-deveined (PUD) and Broken Product (BP) of Prawns and
Shrimps in Block Frozen and Semi Cooks etc.
¨ Size
: U/5, 6/8, 8/12, 13/15, 16/20, 21/25, 26/30, 31/35, 36/40, 41/50,
51/60, 61/70, 71/90, 91/110, 111/130, 131/200, 201/300, 301/500
pieces per pound.
¨ Packing
: 2kg. Blocks are wrapped with polythene sheet and packed in
both-side wax coated laminated one flap duplex board non toxic
painted inner carton (EEC Standard) and then 2 kgs X 6 = 12 kgs net
put into corrugated wax coated Master Carton.
B. Frozen
Sea Water and Fresh Water Fish
¨ Sea
water fish : Promfrets, Jewfish, Indian Salmon, Shad, Catfish,
Ribbonfish, Mullet, Tuna, Mackerel, Cock-up, Red Snapper etc. are
processed in whole, headless, belly clean (IQF) state or
sliced/fillets/steak in Block frozen state.
¨ Fresh
water fish : Carps, Common Carps, Silver Carps, Grass Carps,
Catfish, River Shark, Climbing Perch, Snake-Heads, Barbs,
¨ Shad,
Eel, Mullets etc. The large fishes are processed in whole headless,
belly clean (IQF) state or sliced/fillets/steaks and small fishes
are processed in whole block frozen state.
¨ Packing
: Each IQF Sea/Fresh water fish is wrapped with polythene sheet or
put in polybag and 20 kgs net of such fishes are put into a large
polybag and then into a Master Carton wrapped with Hessian cloth.
¨ Block
frozen fishes are wrapped with polythene sheet and then put into a
Master Carton wrapped with Hessian cloth. The small fishes are
packed in 2 kgs/1kg/0.5 kg blocks or as desired by the Buyers.
|
AQUASTAT is FAO's global information
system on water and agriculture developed by the Land and Water
Division. It collects, analyses and disseminates data and
information by country and by region. Its aim is to provide users
interested in global, regional and national analyses with
comprehensive information related to water resources and
agricultural water management across the world, with emphasis on
countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Information for Bangladesh
|
