Fishing is a Hobby-cum-Occupation

Bangladesh is full of small, medium and big water bodies that are very promising for freshwater fisheries production. However, due to excessive application of insecticides and pesticides in the rice fields, most of the areas have become unsuitable as natural breeding place for the different types of local fishes.

People living in the low land areas avail the opportunity of capturing fishes from the open fields after inundation with the flood water. Fishing is a Hobby-cum-Occupation in the low-land areas. This practice becomes a routine work during the monsoon rainy season, when it rains almost every day. 

In the remote villages almost every houses have a pond near them. The Beels, Haaors and other low land areas are teaming with fish, which provides most of the protein for people living in rural areas.