Chhapra: People in Bihar generally like to eat fresh and live fish. This is the reason why live fish is in highest demand in the market. But as soon as the fish dies or some time passes, people do not even want to touch it. Due to the bad smell, people do not even stand near it and leave from there with handkerchiefs on their noses. In villages, such fish are buried by digging a pit in the field so that the foul smell does not spread.
But the surprising thing is that some traders pick up this rotten fish and are earning good money from it. These people collect the fishes which people consider useless and throw them away and dry them in the sun. When the fish is completely dried, it is packed in sacks and sent to Kolkata, where it is bought at a good price.
Fish is packed and sent to Kolkata
Many traders in Sonpur, Dighwara, Hajipur, Buxar and Chapra have joined this work. While the local people do not even like to go near this fish, the people supplying it to Kolkata are seen sitting drying and packing the fish amidst the foul smell.
good income from business
Talking to Local 18, Nomi Kumar said that he has been doing similar business for the last 10 years. The fishes which people in Bihar throw away considering them rotten are easily sold in Bengal after drying. He said that wherever there is excess fish and people throw it, they buy it at a cheaper price. Then they dry it, fill it in a sack and send it to Bengal.
There is demand in Bengal
He told that three people in his team do this work together. There are many traders in this area who are doing dry fish business. While in Bihar people prefer only fresh fish, in Bengal there is a good demand for dried fish. Because of this, this business gives good profits even at low cost.
earning millions
Nomi Kumar said that shopkeepers in Bengal keep selling this dry fish for months and earn lakhs from it. That is, the same fish which no one even touches in Bihar is proving to be gold in Bengal.
