Shrimps and other fishes worth about Tk 43.9 crore were lost as strong flow of rainwater flushed them away from nearly 9,472 shrimp 'ghers' (enclosures) out of 56,556 and 7,344 ponds and fish farms out of 31,847 in the district, official sources said.
But the shrimp farmers said their loss in the last couple of day's heavy rain amounts to Tk 100 crore at the least.
District fishery office sources said about 50,000 shrimp farmers became penniless due to incessant rain which caused floods in nine upazilas of the district.
The worst affected upazilas in the district are Koyra, Dakop and Dumuria where 11,661-hectare shrimp ghers were damaged.
Assistant fisheries officer of Khulna district Bidhan Das told the news agency that if the rain continues for five or six days, 48,898.8 hectares of shrimp 'ghers' and 1904.5 hectares of ponds and fish farms would be damaged completely.
Harun-ur-Rashid, a shrimp farmer of Koyra upazila in the district, said his five shrimp ghers on 200 bighas were completely washed away in the heavy rain.
'I have become penniless as my five ghers washed away in incessant rains,' he said, adding that he spent about Tk 10 lakh for shrimp farming this year.
Assistant fisheries officer of Khulna Bidhan Das further said 60 per cent shrimp ghers, ponds and fish farms of nine upazilas and city were completely damaged by floods caused by heavy rain.
Source : New Age
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