Legal notice to set the price of Hilsa at Tk 700 per kg

A legal notice has been issued to the government, urging that the retail price of Hilsa fish be limited to a maximum of 700 taka per kilogram for the citizens of Bangladesh. The notice was filed on Sunday by Supreme Court lawyer Khondaker Hasan Shahriar. The notice was directed to several high-ranking officials, including the Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, the Secretary of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, the Director General of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection, the Chairman of the Bangladesh Competition Commission, the Chairman of the National Board of Revenue, and the Chief Controller of Imports and Exports. The notice requests that monitoring of the wholesale and retail markets for Hilsa fish be conducted within seven days, along with effective measures to combat illegal smuggling of Hilsa across borders. It also emphasizes the need to consider factors such as rising sea temperatures and climate change when proposing a coordinated fishing ban period for both India and Bangladesh. Furthermore, it calls for an official written proposal to India to establish a unified or similar timeframe for the fishing ban and insists that any future exports of Hilsa to other countries should not be priced lower than the market rate in Bangladesh.