At least 70 fishermen with five fishing boats in southern coastal district of Barguna, Bangladesh have been missing since Friday night due to a strong storm, according to local media.
The fishermen went to the Bay of Bengal for catching Hilsha (Elish) fish, which is the national fish in Bangladesh, while the gusty storm swept over the southern sea, a common place to catch Hilsha fish in Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar.
“We have not found any trace of five fishing boats (locally called trawlers) with over 70 fishermen till now,” Abdul Mannan, president of Barguna Trawler Laborer Union, told Anadolu Agency on Sunday morning.
He added the families of those missing are passing through a tense moment, reported the news agency.
Fishing in the Bay of Bengal is the main livelihood of nearly 500,000 underprivileged people in 21 coastal districts of Bangladesh. Millions of others throughout the whole delta nation of above 165 million people are also indirectly dependent for their livelihoods on fish trading.
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