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Book (series)Report of the Expert Consultation on Cleaner Fishery Harbours and Fish Quality Assurance - BOBP/REP/84
Chennai, India; 25-28 October, 1999
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No results found.This document is the report of an expert consultation on Cleaner Fishery Harbours and Fish Quality Assurance held in Chennai, India, from October 25 to 28, 1999. It was attended by some 30 participants, most of whom were representatives from member-countries fishery harbour managers and administrators, professionals in fish quality control, fish export, harbour design and construction Resource persons were drawn from the FAO and the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP). The consultation’s develop ment objective was to ensure the quality of seafood through rehabilitation of existing fishery harbours and appropriate designs for new fishing harbours. The immediate objectives were to build awareness among key stakeholders about techniques to develop and maintain cleaner fishery harbours, expose them to state-of-the-art design principles and technologies,and facilitate the sharing ofexperience, expertise and learning among membercountries. This report contains the text of the “Chenn ai Declaration” passed by the Consultation, which grew out ofdiscussions among member-delegates. It also contains the text of papers presented by the resource persons. The consultation was part ofaseries ofpilot activities implemented by the BOBPin co-operation with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in India, Thailand, Maldives and Sri Lanka. -
ProjectThe Shrimp Fry By-catch in West Bengal-BOBP/WP/88 1993
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No results found.Culture of tiger shrimp has gained momentum over the last decade in many parts of the world due to its high export value. It has become a major foreign exchange earner in India, where West Bengal is the largest culture centre. In West Bengal, the basic input of tiger shrimp fry is met from the wild, with a large number of the rural poor engaged in shrimp fry-catching and trading in the 24 Parganas (N and S) and Medinipur Districts. However, the destruction of by-catch captured during fry-collect ion has been causing concern. This working paper, based on work done from October 1990 to September 1991 gives an overall picture of the shrimp fry by-catch by assessing quantitatively the seasonal and spatial variations in the species composition. By-catch is 64-99.4 percent of the total fry caught. The fry by-catch destroyed over a period of one year is estimated at 62 million - 2592 million. The study was carried out by the Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA) at its Rese arch Centre in Kakdwip, West Bengal. It was sponsored by the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Two field biologists were engaged by BOBP for sampling and data collection at three centres and the project was implemented under the supervision of CIBA scientists. The authors acknowledge the contributions of the following : Dr K. Alagarswami, Director, CIBA. Madras, for his guidance and keen interest in the investigations; A.V.P. Rao, Principal Scient ist, for monitoring the project and critically going through the manuscript; the field biologists, Rabi Sil and R.S. Halder, for collection of field data; and R.K. Chakraborti, Scientist (SG) for valuable suggestions. -
ProjectThe by-Catch from Indian Shrimp Trawlers in the Bay of Bengal-BOBP/WP/68 1991
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No results found.Shrimps are a major foreign exchange earner for India. But in the race for valuable shrimp, the considerable by-catch hauled up with it is, by and large, ignored in parts of the country. This by-catch is almost 90 per cent of the shrimp caught. This report, based principally on work done in 1988, documents work on assessing the volume and composition of shrimp by-catch discarded by trawlers on India’s east coast and identifies the constraints to its improved utilization. At the time this stud y was undertaken, the provisional estimate of by-catch discards was approximately 100,000 t/a year. Though the numbers have changed since, the loss of by-catch continues to be substantial off this coast. Consequently, more detailed work has followed in specific areas, using this work as a basis. The study of shrimp by-catch and this report, which documents the work done, have been sponsored by the Bay of Bengal Programme’s (BOBP’s) Post-Harvest Fisheries Project. This project has been executed by the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), U.K. and has been funded by the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) of the United Kingdom. During the work the best available experts were engaged and consulted. Besides the BOBP and NRI staff, they included counterparts and fishermen, A. Seetharamaswamy in Vishakhapatnam, and Roger Kullberg who provided invaluable assistance with data collection.
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