Published 07 May,2021 via The Financial Express - Researchers at the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) have succeeded in artificial breeding of 24 endangered species of fish, including the endangered Tengra, Gulsha, Pabda and Bairali.
In this pandemic, scientists at the Freshwater Center of the Fisheries Research Institute have achieved this feat for the first time in the country.
As a result, the researchers hope that the endangered Dhela fish, which is rich in nutrients, can have very large production in the field very soon. Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) Director General Yahya Mahmud said that for the first time in two years of intensive research at the Freshwater Research Center of the Fisheries Research Institute in Mymensingh, the minnows have been successfully produced through artificial insemination.
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