Looting the Bay of Bengal

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The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world is going to face rapid demises of deep sea fishes like Bluefin Tuna, Blue Marlin, Black Marlin, Broadbill Swordfish, Spotted Eagle Rays, Striped Marlin and dolphin due to some greedy fishers, mass awareness. For some culprits catching sea fishes becomes a very lucrative business.

If this prolongs looting the sea fishes in this way, marine diversity conservation experts are perceived that, an acute natural disaster in sea food will be coming closer to the early future. They also warn that predator fishes in oceans on alarming decline, and sea will be fishless as its ecosystem will be fall.

Investigating in Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong Fisheries Ghat (Sea fish dumping station) some greedy local fishers still catching Tiger Shark, Rays, Bluefin Tuna and Dolphin for more benefits despite of ruling out on marine fishing. According to marine diversity experts, to conservation of marine diversity as friendly government should impose strict rules on fishing stating that which fish would catch and which will not.

‘Everyone cheated,’ said Liakat Hossain, a Maji (Captain) from Cox’s Bazar ‘There were rules, but we didn’t follow them. Sea is a gift from God, so there is no fear to get trouble in future as God put unlimited food reserve in the sea, so don’t be tense and go back to your job’, he suggested this reporter while asking him about the coming disaster if they continue to catch those fishes.

Talking with the different fisher men from Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong, they confirmed there are huge demand of sea fishes in China, Cambodia, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Koria and Bangkok. They cut off Swim Bladder, Lateral Line, Gills and Fins such as dorsal, anal fins from the predator fishes.

While Shark finning is a black market trade that rakes in over US$1 billion each year, some researchers believe that from 1996 to 2000, 26 to 73 million sharks were traded yearly while 100 million sharks were killed, shares experts from Bangladesh.

However ‘In 2050: Will there be fish in the ocean?’ this question rose at American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in this year. Scientists say that absence of predators, the fisheries will be out of balance and more subject to mass die-offs from disease and from boom-and-bust cycles that, over time, can lead to algae or bacteria blooms that take the oxygen out of the waters and make them uninhabitable.

The documentary has Published at The Daily Sun of this photographer by name Tipping off the Balance