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ProjectBiosocioeconomic Assessment of the Effect of the Estuarine Set Bagnet on the Marine Fisheries of Bangladesh - BOBP/WP/94 1994
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No results found.The estuarine set bagnet (ESBN) fishery of Bangladesh is one of the country’s niost important traditional fisheries and a large population of small-scale fisherfolk have been dependent on it for a long time. In the last two decades, the introduction and rapid expansion of the bottom trawl fishery and of shrimp culture have contributed to problems of interaction and competition among the fisheries which exploit the same penaeid shrimp and demersal finfish stocks. The traditional, but less effic ient, ESBN fishery has not only become vulnerable, being likely to be affected by other fisheries, but may also be destructive to small penaeid shrimp and some of the finfish resources that these other fisheries exploit. The Department of Fisheries, Bangladesh, decided to investigate this issue and the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) was requested to assist. The study was funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Bioeconomic and socioeconomic surveys were undertaken in 1989/90 an d a National Seminar was held in January 1992 to discuss the results. Because of the interactive nature of many of the marine fisheries, it was necessary, for the assessment and management of any one fishery, to consider the other fisheries exploiting the same resources. Therefore, in addition to the estuarine set bagnet fishery, the fisheries employing marine set bagnets (MSBN), trammelnets (TRN), beach seines (BS), bottom longlines (BLL) and trawlnets (TWL), as well as shrimp fry-collection using pushnets (PN) and dragnets (DN), were investigated. These studies have been documented separately in BOBP working papers BOBP/WP/89 Studies of Interactive Marine Fisheries of Bangladesh and BOBP/WP/90 — The Socioeconomic Condition of the Estuarine Set Bagnet Fisherfolk in Bangladesh. The present paper is based on the results and findings of these publications and assesses the biosocioeconomic impact of the ESBN fishery on the other marine fisheries of Bangladesh. The working papers mention ed provide additional information on the respective fisheries. -
ProjectThe Socioeconomic Condition of The Estuarine Set Bagnet Fisherfolk in Bangladesh - BOBP/WP/90 1993
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No results found.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). -
Book (stand-alone)The Coastal Set Bagnet Fishery of Bangladesh - Fishing Trials and Investigations - BOBP/REP/34 1986
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No results found.This paper reports on the conduct and findings of fishing experiments during six seasons (1980-86) to improve the economics of set bagnets (behundi jal) in Bangladesh. The main purposes were to reduce the costs by using cheaper materials and to increase productivity by employing nets of larger size and new designs. The set bagnet is a traditional fishing gear widely used in the coastal area of Bangladesh. It is the second most important fishing gear after gillnets. In order to better estim ate its importance, BOBP also conducted a pilot survey, the outcome of which has been published in a separate paper (BOBP/WP/34). The work was carried out in cooperation with the Marine Fisheries Department (MFD), Chittagong. The principal national officer engaged in the work was Mr. M.A. Sabur, Fisheries Inspector, who participated on a full-time basis in the trials during the last four years. The initial experiments (1980-81) were conducted in cooperation with the Kalidaha Fishing Pr oject of CARITAS, a social service agency of Juldia near Chittagong, and with private fishermen at Dubla Char off the Sunderbans. From the 1981/82 season the trials were concentrated in Sonadia Island, just north of Cox’s Bazaar. They were conducted in cooperation with private fishermen. Overall planning and supervision of the work was provided by BOBP’s Fishing Technologist, Mr. G. Pajot, during 1980-82 and 1984-86 and by Mr. T. Gestsson, consultant, during 1982-84 The author participate d part-time in the 1983/84 and 1984/85 trials as BOBP Associate Expert in Fishing Technology and in the 1985/86 trials as full-time consultant. Dr. B.T. Antony Raja, Fishery Biologist and BOBP consultant, assisted in interpreting data collected during the last season (1985/86) and in preparing this report.
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