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lamellar hypertrophy and hyperplasia hemorrhage, total revolving credit under the scheme was Tk.
lamellar fusion, necrosis of lamellar epithelial 1,000 million with the assistance from the World
cells, presence of parasites and their cysts were the Bank. The business houses having fixed assets of
major pathology of gills. Hemorrhagic lesion, value not more than Tk. 10 million will be eligible
pyknotic nuclei and melanomacrophage centers to borrow from this fund. About Tk. 0.2-5.0
(MMC) were found in the liver of fish. Major million can be borrowed as term loan and working
pathologies in kidney of fish included presence of capital from Bangladesh Bank through commercial
MMC, necrotic and ruptured kidney tubules, banks. The loan was given to the commercial
severe haemopoietic necrosis, and hemorrhage. banks at 5% interest (bank rate) and the
The economic loss due to disease in Thai pangas commercial banks shall also bridge finance to the
farming was estimated from the difference between entrepreneurs at a lower rate of interest. Working
expected production and actual production. On an capital time limit is for a maximum of 1 year with
average, Thai pangas farmers of Mymensingh half yearly rest, mid-term loan maximum of 3
incur a loss of Tk. 23,104/ha/cycle due to fish years in 5 installments and with 6 months grace
disease (3.6% of expected total production). The period and long-term loan maximum of 5 years in
loss, however, varied with location and size of 9 installments with 6 months grace period.
farms, type of farmers and management practices.
The study also highlighted fish health management 536 HAQUE, M.K.I. & MAZID, M.A. (Fresh
related problems and recommended further work water Station, Bangladesh Fisheries Research
for the development of user-friendly farmer- Institute, Mymensingh). Effect of low cost feed on
oriented fish health management package. the production of walking catfish, Clarias
batrachus in farmer's ponds. Bang. J. Fish. Res.,
535 FARUQUE, F.I. (The University of Asia 2005, 9(1), 37-39.
Pacific, Dhaka). Poor fish farmers' accessibility to
credits : A review. Bang. J. Fish. Res., 2005, 9(1), A feeding trial was conducted for six months in
109-110. farmer's ponds to assess the performance of BFRI
formulated catfish feed on the growth and survival
Fisheries sector contributes about 5.3% to GDP of Clarias batrachus (L.). Nine interested farmers
and about 6% of the export earnings of and their ponds (size range: 10-15 dec) in the
Bangladesh. There are about 4.1 million ha of Barera union of Mymensingh Sadar were selected.
inland water bodies in Bangladesh. However, over The ponds were divided into 3 treatments each
last two decades the catch from inland capture with 3 replications. Among the three treatment
fishery has decreased due to filling of wet lands diets, two diets- traditional (F 1) and BFRI
and other anthropogenic reasons. Accordingly, the formulated (F 3) were prepared by using low cost
production of inland fish has decreased not only agro-based locally available ingredients and the
for the decrease of water bodies but also due to commercial diets was Saudi-Bangla Grower-1 (F 2).
irrational catch of fish fries, brood fishes and use The diets were designed as F 1 F 2 and F 3 for
of current nets for fishing. Significant responses traditional (20.40% protein), Commercial (31%
from the fisheries entrepreneurs have not been protein) and BFRI formulated (30.44% protein)
received for the small loan scheme of the diets respectively. The fingerlings of catfish (7.3 g)
Bangladesh Bank. The bank could not disburse were collected from local fish vendors and stocked
more than Tk. 500 million under the scheme. The at the rate of 100/dec. Feeding rates were adjusted
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