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The fish is found in 11 countries: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Bangladesh is the top hilsa-producing country in the world, followed by Myanmar and then India. [5] Hilsa fishes for sale at fish market in West Bengal, India.
Hilsa are the national fish of Bangladesh and state fish of West Bengal, and are an important culinary ingredient in Bengali cuisine. Bangladesh exports 70% of the world's supply of the fish. In West Bengal, hilsa are cooked in a special mustard sauce as a delicacy known as Ilish Bhapa, Ilish Polao, and Shorshe Ilish during the Durga Puja ...
Hilsa is a common name for Tenualosa ilisha a fish found in Bangladesh and India. Hilsa may also refer to: Hilsa, a genus of fishes containing a single species, Hilsa kelee, found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Hilsa, Bihar, a city and a notified area in the Indian state of Bihar; Hilsa, Nepal, a town in Nepal
Tenualosa is a genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Dorosomatidae, which also includes the gizzard shads and sardinellas. These fishes are found in rivers, brackish waters and coasts in the Indo-Pacific region.
Panta bhat or poita bhat is often garnished with mustard oil, onion, chilli, pickle, and served with shutki mach (dried fish), machher jhol (fish curry), especially shorshe Ilish (ilish cooked with mustard seeds), aloo bhorta or aloo pitika (mashed potato), begun bhorta (mashed brinjal) and other bhorta or pitika (mashed food).
Shorshe ilish (Bengali pronunciation: [sorʃe iliʃ]) is a Bengali dish, native to the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, made from hilsa or Tenualosa ilisha, a type of herring, cooked in mustard gravy. [1]
Hilsa Regan, 1917 Konosirus D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1900 Laeviscutella Poll, Whitehead & Hopson, 1965 Lile D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896 Limnothrissa Regan, 1917 Microthrissa Boulenger, 1902 Nannothrissa Poll, 1965 Nematalosa Regan, 1917 Odaxothrissa Boulenger, 1899 Opisthonema Gill, 1861 Pellonula Günther, 1868 Platanichthys Whitehead, 1968
Adult sea fish, like the Hilsa fish usually breed in fresh water river. After Farakkha Barrage was built, there were no llfish migration fish ladders built to provide spawning area for the fish. After the building of hilsha fish dwindles greatly in India, while the fish thrived in the lower Padma river river in Bangladesh.