Chattogram, May 26 -- Fishermen collected around 8,000 kg eggs from the Halda River, the only natural fish spawning center in South Asia, on Saturday night.

Upazila nirbahi officer Ruhul Amin, said around 400 fishermen collected the fish eggs in two hours from 9:30 pm.

The fishermen collected eggs from Kholifar Ghona, Ramdash Munshir Hat to Madunag hat areas.

Fisherman Mohammad Bahadursaid that he collected 18-20kg eggs from the river.

The UNO said that the carp fish have started releasing eggs and the fishermen started to collect eggs from 9:30pm. Each fisherman collected around 20-25kg eggs, he said.

Generally, mother fish release their eggs during heavy rain in the Bengali month of Chaitra and Baishakh. But the area witnessed low ...