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Pre-feasibility Study of a Floating Fish Receiving and Distribution Unit for Dubla Char Bangladesh - BOBP/REP/8

Year of publication 1980

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages p. 30

Author G. C. Eddie and and M. T. Nathan

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category Technical study

Series number REP8

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Dubla Char is a low-lying island which forms the outermost area of the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and is situated to the east of the outer estuary of the Pusur River. In the very shallow open waters of the Bay of Bengal to the south and east of the island, and up to twenty miles from it, two seasonal fisheries are prosecuted. One is a gillnet fishery, the catches of which are carried in ice by carrier launches directly to the wholesale fresh fish markets in Khulna and Barisal over 70 miles inland. The other type of fishery uses behundi-nets (fixed bag-nets) and the catches are taken ashore on Dubla Char and dried before being transported to Chittagong, 150 miles away. The members of the mission were assigned to examine the feasibility of setting up a floating fish receiving and distribution unit in Dubla Char, which would facilitate the sending of the behundi-net catch to the fresh fish markets of Khulna and Barisal instead of the dried fish markets of Chittagong, thus increasin g the incomes of the behundi-net fishermen.

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