Course: ENV107 Lab

Section: 16

Group: 2

Assignment on Hakaluki Haor

No Name ID

1 Md. Ahnaf Ahmed 1713093630

2 Ena Ara Azad 1611536030

3 Arif Hossen 1621785030

4 Jahid Hasan 1712082630

Table of Contents
Hakaluki Haor ............................................................................................................................ 3

Fishes at Hakaluki Haor ............................................................................................................. 3

Table (Total) .............................................................................................................................. 3

Table-1.1 (Average) ................................................................................................................... 4

Bar graph of Table-1.1 ............................................................................................................... 4

Table-1.2 .................................................................................................................................... 4

Bar graph of table-1.2 (Percentage) ........................................................................................... 5

Conclusion ................................................................................................................................. 5
 Hakaluki Haor

Hakaluki Haor is situated in the eastern part of Bangladesh adjacent to the Assam-Bangladesh

border. 5 upzillas comprise this haor's total area. 3 of them Kulaura, Juri and Baralekha are

under Moulvibazar district. While the other 2 upzillas Golapganj and Fenchuganj are under

Sylhet division. It covers a large surface area of about 181.15 km2. Around 40% of this land

falls in the territory of Baralekha upzilla. There are more than 238 small, medium and large

interconnecting beels, some of which are perennial and others seasonal. During the dry season,

approximately 4,4000 ha are is covered by the beel, but with the onset of the rains in the

summer, the entire area floods to about four and half times of this size (18,383 ha) and remains

under water for up to five months. During this period, all the beels are united as one large lake,

or haor, making Hakaluki Haor the largest freshwater wetland in Bangladesh. The haor is

mainly fed by the Juri/ Kantinala, Sonai/ Bordol, Damai. Fanai, and Kuiachara Rivers, out of

which the Bordol/ Sonai, and Juuri/ Kantinala Rivers are originated in India.

Fishes at Hakaluki Haor

In the hakaluki haor we found different local varieties of fish including shing (stinging catfish),

magur (walking catfish), tengra (mystus), bele (scribbled gobi), baim (tyre-track eel), puti

(swamp barb) and koi (climbing perch).

Table (Total)

Total No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of green No. of

Group no. of white purple blue red marbles yellow
Number marbles marbles marbles marbles marbles marbles
1 242 34 32 35 42 47 52
2 422 78 43 85 75 84 57
3 386 56 54 73 65 63 75
4 406 63 74 45 88 54 82
Total 1456 231 203 238 270 248 266
 Table-1.1 (Average)

Group Total Number Number Number Number Number Number of

Number number of Boal of Gozar of Pabda of of Rohu Catla
of fishes chapila
1 242 34 32 35 42 47 52

2 422 78 43 85 75 84 57

3 386 56 54 73 65 63 75

4 406 63 74 45 88 54 82

Average 364 57.75 50.75 59.5 67.5 62 66.5

Bar graph of Table-1.1

Table 1.1
500 422
386 406
400 364

300 242
200
75 65 88 67.5
100 42
0
1 2 3 4 Average

Total number of fishes Number of Boal

Number of Gozar Number of Pabda
Number of chapila Number of Rohu
Number of Catla Linear (Total number of fishes)

Table-1.2

Group Total % % of Boal % of % of % of % of Rohu % of Catla

Number of fishes Gozar Pabda chapila

1 100% 14% 13% 14% 17% 19% 21%

2 100% 18% 10% 20% 18% 20% 14%

3 100% 15% 14% 19% 17% 16% 19%

4 100% 16% 18% 11% 22% 13% 20%

Average 100% 16% 14% 16% 19% 17% 18%

 Bar graph of table-1.2 (Percentage)

Table 1.2

120%
100%
100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
14% 21% 18% 14% 15% 19% 16% 20% 16% 18%
0%
1 2 3 4 Average

Total % of fishes % of Boal % of Gozar % of Pabda

% of chapila % of Rohu % of Catla

Conclusion

Hakaluki Haor is considered Bangladesh's most productive wetland resource. The basin

maintains a wide range of habitats in wetlands and acts as a natural reservoir as it plays a key

role in the water management of the basin by controlling the Meghna river system's water

flows. Also, both permanent and migratory birds are noted sanctuaries of the haors. A wide

variety of small fishes, oysters, water snails and bivalves, and pasture scattered across the

surface with the floodwater recession attracting a large number of migratory birds. The Haors

are also the country's main fishing grounds. Most of the rim-lands of the haors existed as

cultivable wasteland in the last century or so, when the population pressure was less, and were

used for intensive grazing in the dry season. Therefore, the very life of these wetlands is now

under attack.