Webinar on Swimway Bangladesh

BCFRC, world fish migration day 2020 Bangladesh successfully celebrated on 30 October, 2020 as virtual talk about Swimway Bangladesh in ZOOM due to COVID 19 pandemic. Swimway Bangladesh is a route of migratory fish. Some swim thousands of miles, migrating from their place of birth to locations where they can find food or suitable habitats to reproduce. They depend on free flowing rivers, lake and water fall. This event has been concern on individual topic that relate with fish and rivers of Bangladesh. All are enjoy virtual talk that have been held as an online video conference discussion. Buriganga River has been focused in this event due to water pollution and migratory route. Once upon a time, in 1975 migratory fish was available in the Buriganga river and also river dolphin is present in the Buriganga and Turag river.

 

 

   

   

Organizer and director Md Muzammel Hossain  delivered welcome speech in the event. Guest speaker Herman Wanningen of World Fish Migration Foundation, Groningen, Netherlands was enjoy the virtual event and presented activities of dam remove. Nasima Kabir was presented on "Identification of fish using DNA barcoding method". Bijoy Kumar Ghosh presented on "Fish Migration and Fish Pass in Bangladesh". Moumita saha bristy presented on "Fish dispersal in remote, isolated water bodies". Md. Mehadi Hasan Sohag reported on scope of Biotechnology in sustainable fish production: Bangladesh perspective. Special speaker Dr Mohammad Abdul Baki presented on current status of migratory fish and river of Bangladesh.         

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Jagannath University Day 2020

Jagannath University (JnU) authorities are celebrating its 15th founding anniversary on 20 October, 2020  and started the journey 16 years with new 16 floor tallest building for the accommodation of female students that name is "Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall, JnU".

To mark the “Jagannath University Day 2020”, the university chalked out elaborate programmes which include hoisting national and university flags, colorful procession, discussion programme followed by cultural performances.

JnU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr Mijanur Rahman inaugurated the day-long programmes by hoisting the national flag of Bangladesh. 

 

In 1868, Jagannath Roy Chowdhury founded a school, which was upgraded to a college in 1884. The college was turned into a public university on October 20, 2005. It has around 17,000 students.

 

Crabs from Marine Water of Bangladesh

In the study a total of 18 crab species were identified, belonging to 10 families (Calappidae, Epialtidae, Gecarcinidae, Grapsidae, Matutidae, Ocypodidae, Panopeidae, Sesarmidae, Varunidae, and Xanthidae) order Decapoda under subphylum crustacean with relevant distinguish morphological and meristic character and geographical position. We investigated crab species of Bangladesh from December 2013 to October 2014. All species samples were collected by hand picking on a baseline survey in Saint Martin’s Island (the only coral island of Bangladesh) and adjacent marine water body of Bay of Bengal, Satkhira area (brackish and freshwater) and mangrove forest area (Sundarban). Among 18 species, 10 crab species from Family Epialtidae (1 species), Gecarcinidae (2 species), Ocypodidae (1 species), Panopeidae (1 species), Sesarmidae (1 species) and Xanthidae (4 species) were newly occurred in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Cardisoma armatum and Zosymus aeneus species were larger than other enlisted species.

Keywords: Crab Species, Morphology, Distribution, Coral Island, Bangladesh

Source : Alam, N. , Chakraborty, S. , Hossain, M. , Baki, M. , Alam, S. and Li, C. (2020) Brachyuran Crab Fauna Character Estimated from Marine Water of Bangladesh and Noted New Record (Crustacea: Decapoda) as Distribution. Open Journal of Marine Science, 10, 218-232. doi: 10.4236/ojms.2020.104017.