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ProjectNursery Rearing of Tiger Shrimp Post - Larvae in West Bengal, India -BOBP/WP/86 1993
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No results found.Ever since the shrimp farming industry took off in Bangladesh and West Bengal, shrimp fry collection has developed into a major income-generating activitiy for thousands of people living in the coastal belts of these areas. This paper describes trials with nursery rearing of the tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) in floating cages. They were carried out in Ramnagar, Medinipur District, West Bengal, India, from 1990 to 1992. The purpose was to introduce a technology by which the fry-catchers could augment their income by nursing the shrimp fry to a larger size, with higher market value, and be in a better bargaining position vis-a-vis the traders. The trials were undertaken by a group of shrimp fry-catchers in Ramnagar, with support from the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP). The subproject was sponsored by BOBP’s “Small-Scale Fisherfolk Communities in the Bay of Bengal”, (GCP/RAS/118/MUL), a project jointly funded by SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency) and DANIDA (Danish Int ernational Development Agency) and executed by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). -
Book (stand-alone)Promotion of Small-scale Shrimp and Prawn Hatcheries in India and Bangladesh - BOBP/REP/66 1994
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No results found.The shrimp and prawn culture industries in India and Bangladesh still depend on wild fry. However, expanding production and the trend towards intensification, especially in India, will require the development of hatchery industries in these countries. Since the private sector is likely to be the engine for this development, BOBP undertook activities to transfer smallscale hatchery technology as directly as possible to this sector. In India, this took the form of training small-scale entrepr eneurs in tiger shrimp hatchery technology and providing financial support to the Government of West Bengal for the construction of a demonstration hatchery. Of eight trainees in India, one has set up a shrimp hatchery. The shrimp/prawn hatchery in West Bengal was completed, but not put into production. In Bangladesh, a small-scale demonstration freshwater prawn hatchery was set up in Chittagong District. A new hatchery technology, using brine and a simple recirculating biofilter, was found to be feasible. Both government and private sector participants were trained in the hatchery. Direct assistance in the form of training and equipment was given to four private groups. Three of them completed prawn hatchery construction by the end of 1993 and one of them went into production. -
ProjectShrimp Seed Collectors of Bangladesh - BOBP/WP/63 1990
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No results found.Thousands of people — men, women and children — in coastal areas of Bangladesh, make a living collecting shrimp fry: some 40,000 in Cox’s Bazaar, nearly three times as many in Satkhira and Khulna. Despite the role of these people in sustaining the shrimp industry which generates foreign exchange earnings, they remain poor and under-privileged. This paper is based on a socio-economic study of the shrimp fry collectors undertaken in 1987 by a voluntary agency, UBINIG (Policy Research for Develop ment Alternatives). The aim is to obtain information and discover strategies to improve the lot of the shrimp seed collectors. The study, and this paper which describes it, were sponsored by the BOBP’s project “Small-scale fisherfolk communities in the Bay of Bengal,” GCPIRAS/118/MUL. The project is funded by SIDA (Swedish International Development Authority) and DANIDA (Danish International Development Agency) and executed by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). The project covers seven countries around the Bayof Bengal (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand). The main goals of the project, which commenced in 1987, are to develop, demonstrate and promote newiechnologies and methodologies to improve the conditions of small-scale fisherfolk communities in member-countries.
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