The price of hilsa continues to soar in local markets, despite a government ban on exports to India this year. Fishermen and traders attribute the high prices to a scarcity of fish in the sea, ...

Imagine you get a craving for the delicious Shorshe Ilish (hilsa in mustard gravy) late at night. Under normal circumstances, it would be very hard to satisfy that craving. The markets have already ...

At Khilgaon Railgate kitchen market, vendors were asking Tk 3,700 to Tk 4,000 per kilogram for hilsa on Thursday evening. Hilsa weighing 800–900 grams were priced between Tk 2,800 and Tk 3,000 per kg, ...

Prasanjit Mandal, 30, lives in Farakka, West Bengal, and his traditional line of work is fishing. However, these days, he also drives an autorickshaw to make a living. At times, he goes fishing with ...

The Md Yunus government in Bangladesh may have chosen to honour the commitment of culinary tradition and issue a notification to export hilsa to India ahead of the festive season, but fish importers ...

Hilsa or Ilish or Tenualosa ilisha is possibly the most popular fish from Bengal. Related to the Herring family, the fish is not only consumed in the Indian subcontinent, but also extensively consumed ...

Kolkata's hilsa lovers are turning to Myanmar and Gujarat varieties as doubts rise over the arrival of the prized Padma hilsa from Bangladesh due to strained political relations. While frozen Myanmar ...

The government has extended its support to 8,500 fishermen in the jatka-prone areas of the district by providing special food ...

For every Bengali child, Maach Bhaat is not a phrase; it’s practically a prophecy. If you grew up in Bengal, fish was never “just food,” it was the family’s love language. And if you were me, it would ...

Kolkata: Banned khoka ilish or juvenile hilsa weighing 150-250 gm was sold with impunity in Kolkata markets. Customers happily lapped them up on the day of ‘Ranna Puja’ that is celebrated on Bhadra ...

More than often when we are planning a meal or deciding the menu for the next occasion, we take it for granted that non-vegetarian options will naturally only include chicken or mutton. Although these ...

For decades fishermen in Myanmar have caught and sold the hilsa fish, but overfishing and poor regulation is taking a terrible toll, as the BBC's Ko Ko Aung reports. "We have been catching hilsa for ...