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WORKING PAPERS - BOBP/WP/90 The Socioeconomic Condition of The Estuarine Set Bagnet Fisherfolk in Bangladeshby |
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Executing Agency: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Bay of Bengal Programme Madras, India, 1993 |
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This working paper describes the socioeconomic survey of selected estuarine set bagnet (ESBN) fishing villages in Bangladesh. It deals with village profiles, households and population structured according to sex, age and education. The households have been stratified according to income-generating activities and income. Fishing households were stratified even further on the basis of the craft and gear combinations owned, owned and operated, or operated only and their income estimated on a monthly basis. Variations in income within the community of ESBN fishermen and relative income from different sources are also discussed with opportunities for generating income from sources other than the ESBN fishery. The survey was based on a sampling of six villages, each one identified in each of the six strata into which the estuarine areas of Bangladesh was divided. This survey was conducted to obtain baseline socioeconomic parameters that are relevant to the management of the ESBN fisheries and forms the input, along with the information on their fisheries interacting with it (BOBP/WP/89), for the ‘Biosocioeconomic assessment of the impact of estuarine set bagnet fisheries on other marine fisheries in Bangladesh’ (BOBP/REP/62). |
1. INTRODUCTION
2. APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY
3. THE STUDY AREAS
3.1 Location
3.2 Characteristics of fishing households
4. ORGANIZATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
4.1 Fishing activities
4.2 Occupational structure
4.3 Ownership of craft and gear
4.4 Other economic activities
5. INCOME FROM FISHING AND OTHER ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
5.1 Total income
5.2 Monthly income
6. DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AMONG FISHING HOUSEHOLDS
6.1 Distribution of set bagnet owner households by income from bagnets
6.2 Distribution of households by income from all activities
6.3 Inequalities due to seasonality, activities and gear
7. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
APPENDICES
I. Distribution of fisherfolk population by age and education level
II. Distribution of total households according to characteristics of their dwelling and their main source of income
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