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Counting hilsa with the fishers of the Meghna

Chandpur

Published 4 July 2026 Updated 11 November 2026 2 min read
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A reader-submitted essay on the people and places at the centre of the transition.

The fishers keep the best data in Bangladesh. They just never had a notebook.

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