Bangladesh is crisscrossed with rivers. The majority of people living in coastal communities make their living from fishing, and unlike inland fishing communities they almost totally depend on fishing. Fisheries in Bangladesh, and in particular marine and brackish water fisheries are faced with a dilemma. Fisheries provide the people of...
The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative index characterization of shrimp farms in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. There has been considerable work carried out on shrimp farming in South East Asia with emphasis on biology, environmental factors, management and trade issues but much less work on the...
This study was conducted to assess the economic consequences gained from disease-affected extensive shrimp farming by three major farm ownerships: individual, group and outside respectively. Key data for cost and returns were collected using a questionnaire survey between June and August 2002 from southwest Bangladesh. Profitability of operations was affected...
Bangladesh possesses a wide range of water bodies such as, freshwater marshes, reservoirs, lakes, natural depressions, rivers and estuaries that offer an extensive inland fishery. Apart from several hundred thousands of full time fishers, an estimated 10.60 million rural households (73%) currently take part in fishing activities in these water...