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The Socioeconomic Condition of The Estuarine Set Bagnet Fisherfolk in Bangladesh - BOBP/WP/90

Year of publication 1993

Pages p.26

Author K.T. Thomson; S.M.D. Jahan & M.S. Hussain;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) 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 monthl y 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 fisherie s 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).

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