Government Contacts & Information resources for Commercial Fishing, Seafood, Aquaculture, Marine & Oceans in Bangladesh

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.

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