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Determination of fisheries benefits from floodplain riverine systems in Bangladesh: a mathematical programming approach
Type: Journal Article
This paper presents a non-linear programming model developed to determine the total benefits obtainable from the various floodplain riverine fisheries of Bangladesh. With the help of the model, performance-response of each ...
Fisheries traditions in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The role that sociocultural and religious beliefs play in evolving an implicit mechanism for exploiting and managing the fish stocks of Bangladesh is discussed.
Fisheries education in India
Type: Journal Article
In India, education in all agricultural sciences, including fisheries, is the responsibility of agricultural universities in their respective states. The establishment of these universities started only in the early sixties, ...
Community fisheries management of freshwater lakes in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The Oxbow Lakes Small Scale Fishermen Project in western Bangladesh is primarily a Social Fisheries Project. The project aims at self-management of the Oxbow lakes fishing and fish farming by members of the local communities ...
Governance of aquatic agricultural systems: Analyzing representation, power, and accountability
Type: Journal Article
Aquatic agricultural systems in developing countries face increasing competition from multiple stakeholders over rights to access and use natural resources, land, water, wetlands, and fisheries, essential to rural livelihoods. ...
Research and development of Indian reservoir fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Reservoir resources and the status of fishery development in India is discussed. The current situation regardingresearch on reservoir ecosystems and fishery resources management is considered, and the ecosystem-oriented ...
Maintaining diversity of integrated rice and fish production confers adaptability of food systems to global change
Type: Journal Article
Rice and fish are preferred foods, critical for healthy and nutritious diets, and provide the foundations of local and national economies across Asia. Although transformations, or “revolutions,” in agriculture and aquaculture ...
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 ...
Gender norms and agricultural innovation: Insights from six villages in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The ability of development interventions to catalyse and support innovation for—and by— women and men is undermined by lack of specific understanding about how gender norms interact with gender relations and what this means ...
The predicament of the freshwater fisheries and aquaculture of Sri Lanka
Type: Journal Article
A discussion is presented on the current problems facing the freshwater fisheries of Sri Lanka, following the decision taken by the Government to abolish the Inland Fisheries Division of the Fisheries Ministry and to stop ...