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Inclusive aquaculture: business at the bottom of the aquatic pyramid
Type: Journal Article
Through a SIDA -funded project on small-scale fisheries FAO and partners have been supporting WorldFish Center research into small-scale aquaculture investment. Studies of projects in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia suggest ...
Reimagining large-scale open-water fisheries governance through adaptive comanagement in hilsa shad sanctuaries
Type: Journal Article
Almost a half million fishers in Bangladesh are predominantly reliant on the hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) fishery in the Meghna River and estuarine ecosystem. This paper adopts a broadened concept of social-ecological ...
Balancing carrots and sticks: incentives for sustainable hilsa fishery management in Bangladesh
Type: Report
Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in collaboration with the Bangladesh government’s Department of Fisheries in 2013–2016 for enhancing the effectiveness and sustainability of ...
Proceedings of the Small-scale Fisheries Symposium 2019
Type: Conference Proceedings
USAID’s ECOFISH activity of WorldFish organized a 2-day long Small-scale Fisheries (SSF) Symposium on June 19-20, 2019 at a local Hotel in Banani, Dhaka. The symposium aimed at sharing the knowledge on small-scale fisheries ...
Productivity and coastal fisheries biomass yields of the northeast coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem
Type: Journal Article
This paper describes the current marine fisheries situation in the northeast sector of the Bay of Bengal, ninety percent of which corresponds to Myanmar's EEZ and ten percent to Bangladesh. With the exception of the research ...
Community-based fisheries management approach adopted in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) Project, funded by the Ford Foundation (1994-1999) and the UK Government's Department for International Development (2002- 2006), aimed to promote the sustainable use of, and ...
Labour, identity and wellbeing in Bangladesh's dried fish value chains
Type: Book Chapter
Dried fish products play an important role in the diets of fish consumers and in the livelihoods of actors in fisheries value chains throughout Africa and Asia. In Bangladesh, a large proportion of marine and freshwater ...
Central Stakeholders’ Consultation Workshop on Selecting Appropriate Mesh-size for Hilsa Gillnets
Type: Conference Proceedings
This proceeding presents a summary of the presentations of all speakers and feedback received from the participants in the ‘Central Stakeholders’ Consultation Workshop on Selecting Appropriate Mesh-size for Hilsa Gillnets’ ...
Annual report 2017
Type: Report
This annual report highlights some of our key achievements over the past year as we progress towards our impact targets. In Asia and Africa, our genetic improvement program took a major step forward with the use of genomic ...
Food and feeding ecology of hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) in Bangladesh’s Meghna River basin
Type: Working Paper
Hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) is one of the most important tropical fish of the Indo-Pacific region, especially in Bangladeshi waters. The hilsa fishery has declined significantly since 2002 mainly due to overfishing, ...