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Community based fisheries management : institutional options for empowering fisher communities
Type: Brochure
The Community Based Fisheries Management Project (CBFM-2) is the second phase of an action research project designed to establish whether the sustainable management of publicly owned and private water bodies can be carried ...
Redirecting benefits to genuine fishermen: Bangladesh's new fisheries management policy
Type: Journal Article
In 1986 the government of Bangladesh decided to pursue a new fisheries management policy (NFMP) that would allow fishing access only to the genuine fishers with the following main objectives: to free the fishers from ...
Managing fisheries conflicts through communication planning: experience from inland fisheries of Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Increasing population, ineffective management, competition among fishing gears over access to resources and proliferation of destructive practices are imposing severe stress on the inland water bodies of Bangladesh. These ...
Community based fisheries management CBFM-SSEA fisheries and livelihoods impact
Type: Brochure
Research showed that community based fisheries management has significantly increased annual fish production, lifted household income levels, improved access to credit from a wide range of sources, and enabled livelihood ...
Community based fisheries management: the right option
Type: Brief
The principle behind community managed fisheries is hand over of the management of fisheries resources to community groups and they will manage the resources sustainably and equitably. The benefits of this approach are ...
Enhanced Coastal Fisheries in Bangladesh (ECOFISH-BD) : Poster-ECOFISH-Outputs
Type: Poster
ECOFISH-BD supports the Department of Fisheries (DoF) and local communities to establish collaborative management (“co-management”) and focuses on reducing overfishing, and improving community empowerment and livelihood ...
Key issues in coastal fisheries South and Southeast Asia, outcomes of a regional initiative
Type: Journal Article
Asia is an important region in terms of fish trade supplying nearly 60% of global fish production. The region’s coastal fisheries play a critical role in ensuring food security and providing livelihoods, particularly for ...
Sustainable inland fisheries management in Bangladesh
Type: Conference Proceedings
This conference volume "Sustainable Inland Fisheries Management in Bangladesh" contains 37 papers presented at the workshop. These paper are divided into five sections namely Introduction, Institutional issues, the CBFM ...
Population parameters of important species in inland fisheries of Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The von Bertalanffy growth model parameters (L8 and K) and mortality coefficients (Z, M and F) were estimated for 12 fish species caught by fishers in five Community-Based Fisheries Management project sites in Bangladesh. ...
Status of fisheries resource and management approach in the open beels of Bangladesh: a comparative case study
Type: Journal Article
A fish catch monitoring program was introduced in Ashura beel, Goakhola beel and Dikshi beel in 1997 through the Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) project. The project focused on developing community management ...