What is Tenualosa ilisha?
{{italic title}} [[Image:Ilsha fish.JPG|frameless|right|]] '''''Tenualosa ilisha''''' ('''ilish''', '''hilsa''', '''hilsa herring''' or '''hilsa shad''') is a [[species]] of [[fish]] in the [[Clupeidae]] ([[herring]]) family.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=278568 |title=Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822) |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |access-date=19 December 2015}}</ref> It is a [[wikt:popular|popular]] food [[dish]] in [[South India]], [[East India]] and in the [[People's Republic of Bangladesh]]. The fish contributes about 12% of the total [[Mass production|fish production]] and about 1% of [[GDP]] (money earned) in [[Bangladesh]].<ref name=SiddiqueDT>{{cite web|last1=Siddique|first1=Abu Bakar|title=Country's 6th Ilish sanctuary coming soon|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/jan/20/country%E2%80%99s-6th-ilish-sanctuary-coming-soon|website=Dhaka Tribune|publisher=Dhaka Tribune|access-date=23 May 2015|archive-date=20 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620051142/http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/jan/20/country%E2%80%99s-6th-ilish-sanctuary-coming-soon|url-status=dead}}</ref> About 450,000 people are directly involved with catching it for a living. About four to five [[million]] people are involved in the trade.<ref name=SiddiqueDT/> It is also the [[National]] fish of [[Bangladesh]]. Other names include: palla fish, hilsha, ellis, ilish, (Bengali:ইলিশ): ilish, (Oriya:ଇଲିଶି): ilishii, [[Sindhi language|Sindhī]]: پلو مڇي pallu machhi, (Telugu:పులస): pulasa or polasa. ==Related pages== *[[Bengali cuisine]] ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Clupeiformes]] [[Category:National symbols of Bangladesh]] [[Category:Edible fish]] {{biology-stub}}