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Fish-drying operations cover some 200 acres near the main airport of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Local fishermen on the nearby Bay of Bengal bring in their catch of small “knife fish” and other species to sell to traders on the beach, whose workers then clean and dry them on racks in the open air. An estimated twenty thousand Bangladeshis are employed drying fish each season, typically from October to March, producing 5 to 6 million tons of dried fish for local consumption and export. The cheap dried fish is called shutki, and it provides 60 percent of the animal protein consumed in Bangladesh.

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Fish-drying operations cover some 200 acres near the main airport of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Local fishermen on the nearby Bay of Bengal bring in their catch of small “knife fish” and other species to sell to traders on the beach, whose workers then clean and dry them on racks in the open air. An estimated twenty thousand Bangladeshis are employed drying fish each season, typically from October to March, producing 5 to 6 million tons of dried fish for local consumption and export. The cheap dried fish is called shutki, and it provides 60 percent of the animal protein consumed in Bangladesh.

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