18.5kg fish caught from the Ganges was sold for this much
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Indo Asian News Service Nov 20, 2019 01:22 PM IST
Local resident Tarun Bera had gone to the river for angling along with his friends in the morning.
A jumbo Bhetki fish weighing 18.5 kg was caught from the Ganges in Howrah district’s Uluberia on Tuesday, fetching a whopping price of Rs 12,000.
Local resident Tarun Bera had gone to the river for angling along with his friends in the morning. After some time, he could feel a pull in the fish hook. As he pulled the hook, he found a huge Bhetki fish stuck on the wheel. The fish was later weighed at 18.5 kg.
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Bera and his friends took the fish to the market in Phuleshwar where it was auctioned off. A local fish seller bought the giant sized Bhetki for a whooping sum of Rs 12,000.
“I hope to sell it for Rs 13,000-Rs 14,000,” he said.
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